She’s shuffling between Queens and Manhattan to share time between her divorced parents and struggling with thick facial hair and classmates who make her feel like she’s “not a whole person” due to her mixed White and Puerto Rican heritage. She’s 11 and dealing with typical preteen concerns-popularity and anxiety about grades-along with other things more particular to her own life. Through the author’s own childhood diary entries, a seventh grader details her inner life before and after 9/11.Īlyssa’s diary entries start in September 2000, in the first week of her seventh grade year. A lucid and enlightening double biography of two outstanding American women politicians. In 1965, she was elected to Congress, where she served until 1977. Mink got involved in politics when she was casually invited to a Democratic meeting in 1953. She became a lawyer but couldn't find work because she was a woman, Asian, and married. Although a strong candidate, she was rejected from all the medical schools she applied to. Born in 1927, she suffered from anti-Japanese sentiments during WW II. Mink faced not only sexism but also racism in her private life and political career.
After that, she became a political outcast until her consistently held pacifism made her a popular figure in the antiwar movement of the 1960s. Rankin was elected to her second term of Congress in 1939, and she again voted against war.
An ardent pacifist, she voted against American participation in WW I. Soon after her arrival, Rankin was forced to vote on the US going to war. She began her political career by fighting for women's suffrage, and when women received the vote in Montana-largely due to Rankin's efforts-they helped elect Rankin to Congress. Born in 1880, Rankin's career choices were limited. Mink of Hawaii became the first Asian-American woman House member. Forty-nine years later, Representative Patsy T. In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. Davidson (Getting the Real Story, not reviewed) pairs the stories of two pioneers in the struggle for equal rights for women.
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