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  First AmendmentCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.The First...

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  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Sandra Day O'ConnorSandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930 in El Paso, Texas . She spent much of her childhood on a family ranch in Arizona , where she rode horses and helped herd cattle. O’Connor graduated from high school at the age of sixteen and entered Stanford University to study economics...

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  Gloria SteinemBORN: March 25, 1934 • Toledo, OhioAmerican author; editor; women's rights activist Gloria Steinem became famous in the 1970s as a symbol of the feminist movement in the United States. A journalist and founder of Ms. magazine, Steinem enjoyed a high media profile that helped to...

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  Women's Rights Movement

  The Women's Rights MovementBeginning in the mid-1800s, American women became involved in social reform movements in greater numbers than ever before. They participated in the struggle to abolish slavery, the battle to outlaw alcohol (known as the temperance movement), the effort to ban child...

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