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She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940.
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Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in the United States -
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granted women the right to vote -
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive in 1960. Within 2 years of its initial distribution, 1.2 million American women were using the birth control pill, or the "pill," as it is popularly known. -
She coined the term feminine mystique to describe the societal assumption that women could find fulfillment through housework, marriage, sexual passivity, and child rearing alone -
n addition, through the efforts of Peterson, who had been appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor, the Equal Pay -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 hastened the end of legal Jim Crow. It secured African Americans equal access to restaurants, transportation, and other public facilities. It enabled blacks, women, and other minorities to break down barriers in the workplace. -
in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country. -
the primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution -
Every student deserves educational opportunity free from discrimination. That is why today the U.S. Department of Education -
the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right -
exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in -
when Justice Potter Stewart retired in 1981, President Reagan fulfilled that promise by nominating O'Connor, noting that she was a “person for all seasons.