A woman in the House (and Senate) how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country
For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women acr...
| Main Author: | Cooper, Ilene. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
2014.
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