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Nellie Gray (activist)

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346: 340: 31: 159:. She was an employee of the federal government for 28 years, working in the Departments of State and Labor, while attending Georgetown University Law School. She found herself practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court. 459: 166:, she retired from professional life and became an anti-abortion activist, beginning with the March for Life. She was an opposition speaker at the 434: 225: 424: 385: 414: 419: 283: 454: 439: 429: 464: 202: 167: 105: 101: 469: 156: 295: 282:,” 1977-11-21, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, 378: 449: 444: 371: 359: 279: 171: 145: 140:
convert, enlisted in the military on June 27, 1944, at Camp Bennett, Texas, and served as a
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She later earned a bachelor's degree in business and a master's in economics from
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This biographical article about a United States activist is a
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1977 National Women's Conference: A Question of Choices
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Big Spring
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Supreme Court
Roe v. Wade
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Women's Army Corps
World War II
Georgetown University Law School
1977 National Women's Conference
Mildred Fay Jefferson
Phyllis Schlafly
R.K. Dornan
"NELLIE GRAY OBITUARY"
"ASAP's Fables"
"At 84, Pro-life Leader Nellie Gray Marches On"
1977 National Women's Conference: A Question of Choices
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
"Nellie Gray, founder of March for Life, dies"
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