From Ella Baker to Dolores Huerta to Wilma Mankiller, here are 36 women you should have learned about in school. WomensHistoryMonth
Alicia Garza, along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors,co-foundedthe Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder trial. Here, she attends the Busboys and Poets' Peace Ball: Voices of Hope and Resistance at National Museum Of African American History & Culture on Jan. 19, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation and she fought for the rights of women and Native Americans. She led Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton in 1998."She understood that great leadership begins with the women — that's our long, cultural tradition," said Chad Smith, who was chief when she died in 2010."If I had one word to frame her, it would be patriot.
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