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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Why is International Women's Day on March 8?
Christine de Pisan Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Sojourner Truth
How women won the right to vote around the world
Susan B. Anthony National convention of the Women's Trade Union League Emma Goldman
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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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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
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Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
National convention of the Women's Trade Union League
Emma Goldman
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Why is International Women's Day on March 8?
How women won the right to vote around the world
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