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...demand an end to sweatshop conditions, child labor, and for the right to vote. The action of these women was an inspiration to people all over the world, demonstrating the power of women joined in struggle for their rights. Around 1910, at the International Conference of Women Socialists, Clara Zetkin, German socialist leader, introduced a resolution to set aside March 8 as International Working Women's Day. The day was founded to commemorate the past struggles of working women for their rights, to rally women throughout the world in a fight for the right of women to work in tolerable...
...November 22, 1909, Clara Lemlich called for a resolution to strike at a mass meeting of garment workers in New York City. Thirty-thousand unorganized workers answered the call. The uprising of the women shirtwaist makers led to the successful signing of full union contracts for 312 shops in New York. The strike lasted 13 weeks despite police beatings and mass arrests...
...University of California at Berkeley. After earning her law degree at Berkeley in 1965, she became the first woman to clerk on the Nevada Supreme Court, where Justice David Zenoff pronounced her "intellectually marvelous." Bird, who has never been married, then became the first female public defender in Santa Clara County, Calif., and also taught litigation and consumer law from 1972 to 1974 at Stanford...
...ranked San Francisco came within one basket of becoming another member of the exclusive "Sports Illustrated Jinx" club, just edging Santa Clara, 71-70, on a Chubby Cox basket with two seconds left...
...Santa Clara had a chance to lock it up in the last minute, but a Kurt Rambis foulshot on the front end of a one-and-one situation with nine seconds left bounced off the rim and out of bounds, giving San Francisco the one last chance it needed...