I Won't Be the Last

Close Read Passage, 308 words, Biography (nonfiction), Sequence, Level W (Grade 4), Lexile 880L

In 1916, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She helped women across the United States win the right to vote and paved the way for more women to be elected to office.

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