Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug , nicknamed Battling Bella, was an American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader of the Womens Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Womens Political Caucus. She declared, This womans place is in the Housethe House of Representatives, in her successful 1970 campaign. She was later appointed to chair the National Commission on the Observance of International Womens Year and to plan the 1977 National Womens Conference by President Gerald Ford and led President Jimmy Carters commission on women.
Bella Savitsky was born on July 24, 1920 in New York City. Both of her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her mother, Esther , was a homemaker and her father, Emanuel ran the Live and Let Live Meat Market.
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