7. Because Clara Lemlich demanded a strike resolution at Cooper Union and launched the 1909 Uprising of the 20,000.

8. Because Bill Mardo and Lester Rodney campaigned for and won the integration of Major League Baseball.

9. Because Betty Friedan (born Bettye Naomi Goldstein) wrote The Feminine Mystique and awakened millions of women to the call of liberation.

10. Because nearly half of the white Freedom Riders who went south in 1964-65 were Jewish.

11. Because Abbie Hoffman dropped dollars bills on the New York Stock Exchange floor in 1967 to expose the system for what it is.

12. Because Gay Pride Day was launched by a Jewish bisexual woman named Brenda Howard.


haggadah Section: Introduction
Source: Adapted from Lawrence Bush