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Bella Abzug, 1920-1998: activist for women's rights was known for her large hats and strong opinions

2012-07-03 17:22

 

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RICH KLEINFELDT: I'm Rich Kleinfeldt.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Bella Abzug. She was a member of the United States Congress in the 1970s. She also was a well-known activist for civil rights and women's rights.

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RICH KLEINFELDT: Bella Abzug was well known for many reasons. She was a lawyer and activist. She represented New York City in Congress. She spoke in a loud voice. And she always wore large hats.

Ms Abzug supported women's rights and civil rights. She had strong opinions on many issues. She opposed the American involvement in the war in Vietnam. She made public her opinions on most important issues. In fact, she was called one of the most outspoken members of Congress.

Bella Abzug also acted on her beliefs. She wrote legislation to prevent unfair treatment of women. She presented the first bill for equal rights for homosexuals. She often denounced the majority of the members of Congress who were white males. She said they did not know about the lives and problems of most people in America.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Bella Abzug did know about the lives of common Americans. She was born Bella Savitsky in the Bronx area of New York City in 1920. Her parents had come to the United States from Russia. Her father operated a food store called The Live and Let Live Meat Market. Bella said she knew from the age of 11 that she wanted to be a lawyer. At the age of 12, she gave her first public speech. It was in an underground train station in New York.

RICH KLEINFELDT: Bella attended Hunter College and Columbia Law School in New York City. She married Martin Abzug in 1944. He was a stockbroker and writer. He had no interest in politics. But he was his wife's best friend and supporter. They had two daughters.

Bella Abzug became a lawyer in the 1940s. She represented labor union workers. She also represented people involved in civil rights cases. She often worked for no payment in these cases. In the 1950s, she represented people accused of subversive activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Bella Abzug began wearing large hats when she was a young lawyer. There were very few women lawyers in America then. She told this story about why she began wearing hats: "Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. After a while I starting liking them. When I got to Congress, they made a big thing of it. They did not want me to wear a hat. So I did."

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RICH KLEINFELDT: In the 1960s, Bella Abzug became an anti-war activist. She organized a group of anti-war women, called Women Strike for Peace. She opposed American involvement in the war in Vietnam. And she opposed testing of nuclear weapons. She led demonstrations in Washington against the war and in support of a ban against nuclear weapons. She became a leader of the movement against President Johnson because of his involvement in the war.

In the early 1970s, Ms Abzug also became a leader of the growing women's rights movement that was spreading across the country. She helped form the National Women's Political Caucus. In speaking to the group in 1971, she demanded equal rights for women in all areas of American life.

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: In 1970, Bella Abzug was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat from New York City. She was 50 years old. She was the first Jewish woman elected to Congress. Her campaign statement was: "This woman belongs in the House." She did not mean her house. She meant the House of Representatives. At the time, there were only ten female members in the House of Representatives.

During her first day as a member of Congress, Ms Abzug introduced a resolution calling for an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. The resolution was defeated.

Later in her term, she tried other ways to reach that goal. She forced the administration of President Nixon to surrender documents about the Vietnam War that were known as the Pentagon Papers. She also was the first member of Congress to call for an impeachment investigation of President Nixon.

RICH KLEINFELDT: Ms Abzug supported many programs to help American families. For example, she wanted national insurance to help pay for health care for all Americans. And, she wanted the government to establish centers to care for young children while their mothers worked.

She wanted these programs paid for with money cut from the budget of the Defense Department. She did not succeed in getting this legislation passed in Congress. Yet she kept trying.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Representative Abzug was known for her forceful way of expressing her opinions. Yet House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill chose her as one of his assistants. She helped write the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts. These laws restricted the right of the Federal Bureau of Information to withhold information.

Ms Abzug served in the House of Representatives for six years. In 1976, she gave up her seat in the House to campaign for the Democratic nomination for senator from the state of New York. She lost the election. She ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City. She also lost two more elections that would have returned her to the House of Representatives.

RICH KLEINFELDT: For 20 more years, Bella Abzug continued to work for women's rights. In 1979, President Carter appointed her the head of a National Advisory Committee on Women, a non-paying job. Later, President Carter dismissed her when she criticized his decision to cut money for women's programs. In 1990, she started the Women's Environmental and Development Organization, which works with international agencies.

Ms Abzug was one of the leaders of an international conference of women. Thousands of women attended that conference in Beijing, China in 1995. They discussed ways for women around the world to gain equal rights.

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Bella Abzug wrote two books. The first is called "Bella! Ms Abzug Goes to Washington." It is about her first year in Congress. Her second book was published in 1984. It is called "Gender Gap: Bella Abzug's Guide to Political Power for American Women." In her later years, she continued to serve as a delegate to Democratic national conventions. She was leader of the New York City Commission on the Status of Women. And she directed the National Parity Campaign to increase the number of women elected to political office.

RICH KLEINFELDT: Ms Abzug once said that equal rights for women was at the top of the list of the many issues she supported. She was one of the first leaders of the feminist movement. She defined the word feminist this way: A person who believes that there should be social, economic and political equality for women. She thought that the majority of Americans believed this.

Many women supported Ms Abzug because of her efforts to gain equality for women. She helped make it easier for other women to be elected to public office.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Yet, Bella Abzug had enemies. Many people did not like her. They thought she was too loud, too aggressive, too independent, too liberal. However, most political experts agree that Bella Abzug should be included on any list of the most influential women in American politics in the 20th century.

Bella Abzug died in 1998 following a heart operation. She had been in poor health for several years. She was 77. Many of her friends in the women's movement continue to miss her spirit, her voice, and her hats.

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FAITH LAPIDUS: This program was written by Shelley Gollust. It was produced by Lawan Davis. The announcers were Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith. I'm Faith Lapidus. Listen again next week for People in America in VOA Special English.

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