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Ruth Bader Binsburg - Coggle Diagram
Ruth Bader Binsburg
Ruth's life
Ruth really really disagreed with the opinion that woman has always been dependent upon man. So Ruth went to court to fight for equal treatment of women and she was not win, but she won enough with each victory women and men and girls and boys enjoyed a little more equality.
Ruth became well-known as a lawyer, so well known that president jimmy carter chose her to be a judge in Washington d.c. then Ruth became known as a first-rate judge and president Bill Clinton asked her to be a justice on the supreme court along with the eight other supreme justices her job would be decide the most significant cases and answer the most difficult legal question in the United states. Ruth agreed in 1993, justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the first jewish woman on the nation’s highest court.
Justice Ginsburg can be very convincing in one dissent she explained why the court was wrong to rule against women workers who were fighting to get paid the same as men. Congress and the president agreed with her and passed a law to undo the courts ruling.
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She made change happen and she changed minds she cleared a path for people to follow in her footsteps girls in college women in law school and everyone who wants to be treated without prejudice, her voice may not carry a tune but it sings our for equality step by step she has made a difference one disagreement after another
At Ruth's childhood
Ruth’s mother disagreed that Boy were expected to grow up go out in the world and do big things. Girls were expected to find husbands so she took Ruth to the library.
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In elementary school
Because she was a left-hander so teacher give she a ‘D’ on her penmanship test. She cried then she protested
Ruth didn’t get what she wanted, it may have been unfair to girls and to boys, but Ruth was learning that sometimes life was like that.
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By the way, everyone knew her as an outstanding student baton twirler cello player and newspaper editor in high school
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She and her family disagreed a sign sign “no dogs or jews allowed” and announcing ‘no jews, no colored no Mexicans, only whites only not welcome not allowed’
Ruth's education
in 1950s, Ruth went to college
Both Ruth and her husband-Marty went to law school and Ruth had learned could fight unfairness and prejudice in courts
she studied mightily and tied for first place in the class and yet at graduation time no one would hire this brilliant new lawyer.