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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsheres a question i saw today
name 4 women in US history worthy of being on mount rushmore
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)She has been labeled "the Secret President" and "the first woman to run the government" for the role she played after her husband suffered a severe stroke in October 1919.[1] She has also been called "the first female president of the United States."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Bolling_Galt_Wilson
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rdking647
(5,113 posts)eleanor roosevelt,susan b anthony,harriet tubman (or possibly sojouner truth) and abagail adams
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Eleanor Roosevelt
Mary Harris Jones
Susan B Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Rosa Parks
Wilma Mankiller
Margaret Sanger
Frances Perkins
_____________ <--- spot left blank for the 1st female president.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)thats what makes it even tougher....
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)They can have Rushmore! We'll just go get a bigger mountain!
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Jane Addams
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)I'd like Harriet Tubman, though, and I'll have to google Wilma Mankiller...never heard of her.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)rdking647
(5,113 posts)i ruled out roas parks because i though tubmans or truth's contribution was much greater
Esther Peterson
Ellen Ochoa
Rosa Parks
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harriet Tubman
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)How many is that?
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Have you ever heard the story behind Mount Rushmore...it's totally racist.
Greybnk48
(10,180 posts)by law and rule of force, I'd say Alice Paul (women's suffrage) for one, Nancy Pelosi and Shirley Chisholm for breaking down barriers are a couple more that come to mind.