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Furthering Everyone's Rights (Original Post)
libodem
Oct 2015
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niyad
(113,612 posts)1. thank you for this. ms. perkins was a witness to the triangle shirtwaist fire, which informed her
activism
libodem
(19,288 posts)2. That was a tragic incident
No wonder she was so inspired.
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)3. Yes. she was so wonderful, and so unheralded....
I wonder why.... (sarcasm)
I only came to know about her many achievements late in life.
I certainly didn't learn about her in school.
libodem
(19,288 posts)4. She would be a good woman
To put on our money. Say a twenty. Should be a 100.
niyad
(113,612 posts)5. I like your thinking!!