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Who would you say is the most influential American woman in the last 100 years? Eleanor Roosevelt? Sonia Sotomayor? Lady Gaga? Guess who Michele Bachmann picked? Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative activist and author who recently called the feminist movement the most “dangerous, destructive force in our society today.” For those of you fortunate enough to be too young to remember, Schlafly has been railing against women working for the last half century. (I suppose Bachmann considers running for president a hobby then, like scrapbooking.)
At American Progress, Tanya Somander, Ian Millhiser, and Alyssa Rosenberg suggest some great women the Tea Party doyenne could have picked. Who would you nominate?
They write:
Dorothy Height: The “grande dame” of the civil rights era, Height was a leader of the African-American and women’s rights movements for nearly 80 years. As president of the National Council of Negro Women from 1957 to 1997, she oversaw programs on voting rights, poverty, integration, AIDS, and was a chief organizer of the Million Man March in 1963. One of the first people “to treat the problems of equality for women and equality for African-Americans as a seamless whole,” Heights said just two years before she died in 2010, “I’m still working today to make the promise of the 14th Amendment of equal justice under law a reality.”
