Bella Abzug sponsored the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which was introduced in Congress in 1973. The bill passed the following year and was signed into law by President Ford October 28, 1978. It's the 50th Anniversary of ECOA and we're celebrating women's right to fair credit!

Thank you Bella. Women travel hackers thank you!

Love Bella

Bella was terrific. She was a good friend of my parents, and as a teenager, I remember her coming to our flat for dinner on her visits to HK. She inspired me then, and continues to do so now.

I worked on her campaigns !

So a woman should still ask a man that woman gives birth to ugh what trash

Brilliant woman

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Congratulations!! Now you can go bankrupt just like everyone else!!

Bella is amazing.

We love Bella!

She would have made a better President the Hillary!!!!

Thank you Center for American Women and Politics.

The first political science class I took was Women in Politics and it had 2 halves. You could take it as a Lower level or upper level. The difference was a research paper and presentation. One of the people who took the upper level did her paper on the history of women and credit. she showed this ad too us during her presentation. Now, two years later, I am showing it to my Dad (an end of the era Baby Boomer).

Ferraro blazed the trail. Amen!!!

The Geena Davis Institute is a great beginning, and an answer for the questioner at 45:00/46:00 mark. "If she can see it, she can be it." Increase visibility of females in their actual roles in society. Media starts the defining of who people are. Models/fashion as seen as the standard and young girls emulating the impossibly really thin women models mostly.

This was a great speech, Ms Martin. Thanks to you and CAWP, I learned about another lawmaker, Sen Lipman, an African American woman's excellent success given the opportunity for her to shine.Good for women and good for African Americans, and good for us all. A great person to emulate by younger females, "If she can see it, she can be it."

I had the good fortune to meet this wonderful lady in The Bronx in 1977. I remember looking at her and that big hat and thinking she looked like a tough cookie and she was! I grew up in the Bronx and listening to this video reminds me of my mom and all my aunt's who talked EXACTLY like Bella, same generation, the famous 1930-40's borough accent. WOW. Love Bella!!!

This is one of our favorite videos on KZbin...we show it to every incoming intern!

Bella Rocked, she made an impact on many of us who saw her on TV and continues to speak to women/girls today via her legacy. What a beautiful WOMAN!

If this video doesn't make you misty-eyed, you are officially cynical!