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The woman behind The New Deal, FRANCES PERKINS (1880–1965)
was named U.S. Secretary of Labor by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
1933. She championed the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public
Works Administration, and with the Social Security Act she established
unemployment benefits and pensions for the many uncovered elderly
Americans. She pushed to
reduce workplace accidents
and helped craft laws against
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child labor. Through the Fair
The
ENVIRONMENTAL
Movement
RACHEL CARSON (1907–1964) founded the
contemporary environmental movement. In her
1962 book, Silent Spring, she documented the
dangers of pollutants and pesticides on animals,
people and land. Boldly challenging the practices
of agricultural scientists and the governments,
Carson called for a change in the way humankind
viewed the natural world.
Labor Standards Act, she
established the first minimum
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wage and overtime laws, and
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defined the 40-hour work week.
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CIVIL RIGHTS
Movement
Representing the last generation of suffrage
leaders, ALICE PAUL (1885–1977) brought
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fearlessness and tenacity to the fight for
women’s right to vote. She organized the
first pickets at the White House in 1916 and
1917. Along with dozens of women, Paul was
imprisoned, went on a hunger strike, and was
MINNIJEAN BROWN TRICKEY
(BORN 1941) was only 15 years
old in 1957, when she was one of
force fed. After winning the vote in 1920,
she proposed the original Equal Rights
Amendment.
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She defied death threats, hostile
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white demonstrators and even the
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Arkansas National Guard to attend
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the all-white high school.
New York attorney BELLA ABZUG (1920–1998)
was elected to the U.S. Congress at age 50. One
of the most recognized and bold leaders of the
20th century’s women’s movement, she presided
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over the first government-sponsored National
Women’s Conference at Houston in 1977.
She spoke on The Forum at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1979.
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