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3 strategies today's activist women share with their foremothers

  • Written by Liette Gidlow, Associate Professor of U.S. Political and Women's/Gender History, Wayne State University
Members of the Grand Rapids League of Women Voters organized a city get-out-the-vote parade in 1924. Grand Rapids Herald, Sept. 9, 1924. Image courtesy of the Grand Rapids Public Library.

The first year of Donald Trump’s presidency has inspired a fresh wave of women’s movements.

Both one day and one year after his inauguration, millions...

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