Wednesday July 29, 2020
28 days before the 100th Anniversary of the Women’s Right to Vote
Inspirational Woman for Today is:
Margaret Chase Smith
Another interesting fact…Senator Smith bravely denounced McCarthyism at a time when others feared speaking out would ruin their careers. Though she believed firmly that women had a political role to assume, Smith refused to make an issue of her gender in seeking higher office. "If we are to claim and win our rightful place in the sun on an equal basis with men," she once noted, "then we must not insist upon those privileges and prerogatives identified in the past as exclusively feminine. (Courtesy House.gov)
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