on Nov. 7, 1916, Montanans elected Jeannette Rankin to become the first woman to serve in the Congress of the United States. Professional actress and historian Mary Jane Bradbury presents a first-person program that tells Rankin’s story from grassroots suffragist to her election to Congress, to her votes against entry into both World Wars, to her political activities that lasted up to the Vietnam War.
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State Capitol
1301 East 6th Ave.Helena, MT
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free
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