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  1. Jeannette Rankin.
  2. Jeannette Rankin was born in 18 80 died in 1973
  3. at the age of 92.
  4. She was the first woman to be elected in Minnesota
  5. for U.
  6. S Congress, specifically the House of Representatives.
  7. She was elected in 1916 but was not re elected
  8. in 1918 due to her vote against US entry into
  9. World War One.
  10. She was next, elected in 1940 remained true to her
  11. antiwar beliefs.
  12. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, Rankin helped destroy negative public
  13. attitudes about women as members of Congress.
  14. During her second house term in 1941 she served with
  15. six other woman members, and in the photo below, she
  16. is pictured in the middle.
  17. What did she believe in next?
  18. I wanted to know what were some of Rankin's main
  19. beliefs in standpoints.
  20. These included newest neutrality and World War one and women's
  21. suffrage. Shortly after her term began in April 1917, US
  22. President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to make the world safe
  23. for democracy by declaring war on Germany.
  24. Rankin, who held strong pacifist views, voted against the American
  25. Declaration of War on April 6, 1917.
  26. The resolution passed the House of Representatives by a vote
  27. of 373 to 50.
  28. The picture to the left is the Senate, meaning where
  29. Rankin was in office and, to the right is ranking
  30. at her desk for the remainder of her two year
  31. term in office.
  32. Jeannette Rankin supported measures to protect women, workers, mothers and
  33. Children. She was one of the founding members of the
  34. Committee on Women's Suffrage, which led to the fight in
  35. the House of Representatives for a constitutional amendment that would
  36. grant woman nationwide.
  37. The right to vote.
  38. Ranking opened the 1918 congressional debate on a constitutional women's
  39. suffrage amendment by recalling President Wilson's speech to garner support
  40. for U.
  41. S entry into World War One.
  42. Who were some other advocates for women's equality?
  43. I wanted to research some or advocates for what Jeanette
  44. Rangan believed in and fought for.
  45. These include Roxane Gay and Simone de Beauvoir.
  46. Roxane Gay is a hottie in American writer, professor and
  47. editor. In 2014, she published a New York Times bestselling
  48. bad feminist, a collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race
  49. and politics.
  50. Much of her work is meant to destruct, harmful and
  51. marginalizing themes in mainstream feminism.
  52. Roxanne is also a huge proponent of challenging rape culture
  53. and empowering women who have endured painful experiences.
  54. Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir's most influential work, The
  55. Second Sex, was written in 1949 and helped to begin
  56. a conversation around modern feminism.
  57. In the book, she articulated a thoughtful attack on the
  58. idea that women belongs in passive roles and criticized the
  59. patriarchy. In 1970 Brevard helped launch the French Woman's Liberation
  60. Movement by signing the manifesto of 343 which argued for
  61. abortion rights as my final topic.
  62. I wanted to know how influential Jeannette Rankin Waas on
  63. other feminist advocates and women political leaders.
  64. So how did Jeanette Rankin influence future feminists?
  65. When Jeanette Rankin was elected to Congress in 1916, she
  66. was there before the 1920 the 19th Amendment.
  67. After 1920 the numbers of women began to grow, but
  68. it was gradual.
  69. In Congress, it seemed like the main way that many
  70. that many women got into Congress was if if as
  71. if they were the widows of men who had died
  72. in office.
  73. Kamala Harris Kamala Harris joins a long list of women
  74. to have been the first to accomplish incredible feats with
  75. odds against them.
  76. Wearing a white suit during her speech following the election,
  77. which was a nod to the suffrage is that came
  78. before her, Harris said.
  79. Tonight, I reflect on their struggle, their determination and the
  80. strength of their vision to see what can be unburdened
  81. by what has been, and I stand on their solos.
  82. She also quoted Jeannette Rankin when saying, While I may
  83. be the first woman in this office, I will not
  84. be the last which were the worst Jeanette used when
  85. elected to Congress.
  86. Barbara Lee, representative Barbara Lee, California's Democrat, was the only
  87. member of the House of Representatives to vote against supporting
  88. President Bush's plan to use military force in response to
  89. a terrorist attack, some of compared her to the eccentric
  90. Jeannette Rankin because both women have voted against wars during
  91. their time in office.
  92. Barbara Lee defended her lonely stand by saying that authorizing
  93. military force to stop terrorism would not work