A Single Woman

A major suffragist since 1910, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman in Congress, voted in from Montana four years before women even had the vote nationally (1920). In fact, she was the first woman elected to the legislature of any western democracy! Jeannette Rankin fought for equal pay and an 8-hour day for women, child labor laws, the rights of Native and African Americans, Holocaust refugees and rights of immigrants, including the first bill for immigrant women’s rights to citizenship independent of their husbands.

A lyric and gripping mosaic written by Jeanmarie Simpson .