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Christine de Pisan Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Sojourner Truth
How women won the right to vote around the world
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  • Mississippi only ratified the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, in 1984.
  • Susan B. Anthony was detained and convicted for voting in New York unlawfully in 1872. She refused to pay the fine.
  • Women in the United States were not able to obtain their own credit card prior to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.

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National convention of the Women's Trade Union League
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Why is International Women's Day on March 8?
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