Ally Action Project Week 14: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We mourn the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away on 9/18/20, but leaves behind a legacy of fighting for equality and equal protection throughout her career. She is an American hero and has even become a pop culture icon. She famously instructed to “fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

RBG successfully fought for equal pay for the women at Rutgers Law School in 1963, she successfully fought for maternity leave rights for teachers in NJ, and went on to be the first tenured woman hired at Columbia Law School in 1972. She co-founded the ALCU Women’s Rights Project and led a team of ACLU lawyers who won 5 cases in the Supreme Court between 1973 and 1979. Upon confirmation to the Supreme Court, RBG said, "I pray that I may be all that (my mother) would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve and daughters are cherished as much as sons.” She was the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court.

Watch the biography RBG to learn more about her principles and honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s memory by continuing her fight for women’s rights.