Influential Black Women

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  1. 6. Tried to register to vote in 1965 in Selma, Alabama
  2. 7. Only woman to speak at the March on Washington in 1963
  3. 9. First Black and South Asian woman voted Vice-President of US
  4. 10. Used her basement for meetings to organize the Selma March
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  1. 1. First Black woman elected to congress
  2. 2. Spoke at President Nixon's trial in 1972
  3. 3. Preached against slavery 170 years ago
  4. 4. Co-founded the Democratic Freedom Party in 1964 with Hamer
  5. 5. In 1913, marched at the front of a parade
  6. 8. Home was bombed because she opened her restaurant to Civil Rights workers in 1964