Wednesday June 3, 2020
84 days before the 100th Anniversary of the Women’s Right to Vote
Inspirational Woman for Today is:
Jeannette Rankin
Another interesting fact…As the first woman Member of the US House of Representatives, Rankin was on the front lines of the national suffrage fight. During the fall of 1917 she advocated the creation of a Committee on Woman Suffrage and, when it was created, she was appointed to it. When the special committee reported out a constitutional amendment on woman suffrage in January 1918, Rankin opened the very first House Floor debate on this subject.
To learn more about this inspirational woman, go to Biography.com’s web page
