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When Disadvantages Collide (Department of Human Behavior)

Date: June 2, 2008

Author: Shankar Vedantam

QUOTE: The question of what to do when the interests of two groups that had long suffered discrimination clashed with each other split the feminist movement. In order to gain passage of the 19th Amendment, which in 1920 gave women the right to vote, leading feminists jettisoned issues important to African Americans to win support from women and politicians who would have nothing to do with people of color.

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Key People:

• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Sen. John McCain
• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
• Pres. Barack Hussein Obama Esq.
• Mr. Rush Limbaugh
• Oprah Winfrey

Key Organizations:

• American Sociological Association (ASA)
• Washington Post Newspaper

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Social Sciences & Groups
• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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