This photo depicts women in 1935 teaching other, newly arrived women how to vote, and make their voices heard in the national arena. A cool reminder that Jewish women have always fought to have an impact on the American political arena, and made sure no female voice was frozen from the conversation for lack of know-how!
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Cool find Laura! Also interesting: all the posters in the background are for Roosevelt (who won 85% of the Jewish vote that election) and Herbert Lehman (Jewish governor of New York who succeeded FDR)
Sources:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/jewvote.html
http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml/units/lehman/biography.html
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