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A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country
A Woman in the House How Women Came to the United States Congress Broke Down Barriers and Changed the Country - and Senate
Author: Ilene Cooper
For the first 128 years of our country?s history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress—even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. — Beginning with the w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781419710360
ISBN-10: 1419710362
Publication Date: 3/11/2014
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Book Type: Hardcover
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