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Anne Davidow

Michigan attorney who worked for labor and women's rights

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Humanitarian who has spent her adult life working for social justice

Tags: anti-nuclear weapons, domestic violence, rape, social justice

First woman elected to Michigan's House of Representatives

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Michigan's first female African-American state senator

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African-American woman known for her activism for LGBT rights in the early 20th century

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Woman who fought in the United States Civil War

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First female firefighter in Saginaw, Michigan

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Some women who were the first to integrate male-dominated fields

Taught mathematics and astronomy at the university level in the 1910s

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First American woman to be killed in action during WWII

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