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Also Known As Catherine Shipe
Born May 15, 1916 • West Virginia
Died August 17, 1996 (aged 80) • Ithaca • New York
Role In women’s rights movement
Abzug, Bella
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Jeannette Rankin, 1918
Jeannette Rankin
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Perle Mesta, 1955.
Perle Mesta
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Jill Ker Conway
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John M. Poindexter
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Charles Colson
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Clarence Thomas
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Steve Bannon
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Henry Kissinger
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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George Mitchell speaking at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, January 28, 2009.
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Condoleezza Rice
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Harriet Wiseman Elliott.
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