feminism: Quick Facts
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- Mississippi only ratified the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, in 1984.
- Susan B. Anthony was detained and convicted for voting in New York unlawfully in 1872. She refused to pay the fine.
- Women in the United States were not able to obtain their own credit card prior to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.
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