History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1556 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Molly Dewson
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The idea
Mary Dewson, known as Molly, a veteran of the suffrage movement, rose to direct the Women's Division of the Democratic Party, the anchor records.
In practice
Women organising inside a governing party a decade and a half after the Nineteenth Amendment.
Where people slip
The Yawp cautions that women failed to receive the full benefits of New Deal programmes, and many employers dismissed married women first.
Your place on the trail
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