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“If we can do this, we can do anything,’’ she said at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Securing a vice presidential nomination (© AP Images)ġ984. Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman to be nominated for vice president on a major ticket.
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She said, “My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons of political expediency.” Shirley Chisholm was the first black female major-party presidential candidate. Making a run for the White House (© Ed Kolenovsky/AP Imagesġ972. Using nonviolent strategies, she risked her life to register black women and men to vote, helping gain passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Diane Nash co-founded the student branch of the civil rights movement and worked for voting rights in the South. Securing the right to vote for black Americans (© Henry Burroughs/AP Images)ġ965. Margaret Chase Smith, a Maine Republican who was the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate, was famous for her “Declaration of Conscience’’ speech against the character attacks of Senator Joe McCarthy.
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Walking the halls of both chambers of Congress (© AP Images)ġ940–1973. She was a key player in writing the New Deal legislation, including setting minimum-wage laws. Frances Perkins, secretary of labor under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet. Serving in the president’s Cabinet (© AP Images)ġ933.