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Retired U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm speaking at a podium at George Mason University for Black History Month.

A glass coffee carafe featuring a starburst motif.

Highball glass featuring starburst motif.

A glass punch bowl featuring a starburst motif

Photograph of U.S. Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink of Hawaii in front of the U.S. Capitol Building. Mink was the first woman of color elected to Congress.

United States Senator, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine shaking hands with an unidentified man. Smith was the first woman to be elected to both houses of Congress. Smith also ran for president in 1964.

Portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg was the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court and is well known as a feminist icon for her advocacy for women's rights.

Page from Broadside student newspaper, showing images of the Vietnam War Moratorium petition. Broadside, October 14, 1969.

Posters like this were handed out by suffragists and voting activists to encourage women to register to vote. They were hung in the windows of homes, informing those who walked past of the resident's voter status.

Pamphlet making the argument for granting women the right to vote based on their contributions to home and family.