A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin Woelfle Gretchen
A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin Woelfle Gretchen For take-charge girls in the making and fans of I Dissent and Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice, this is…
Specifikacia A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin Woelfle Gretchen
A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin Woelfle Gretchen
For take-charge girls in the making and fans of I Dissent and Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice, this is the story of Jeannette Rankin, the first US congresswoman.Jeannette Rankin was always a take-charge girl. That's why, when she saw poor children living in bad conditions in San Francisco, she knew she had to take charge and change things. Whether taking care of horses or her little brothers and sisters--Jeannette knew what to do and got the job done.
Jeannette became an activist and led the charge, campaigning for women's right to vote. But in the early twentieth century, women like Jeannette couldn't vote to change the laws that failed to protect children. And when her home state, Montana, gave women that right, Jeannette ran for Congress and became America's first