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She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).
She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including " Harley Davidson "; " Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plaît "; " Bubble gum "; " Contact "; " Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi "; " L ' Appareil À Sous "; " La Madrague "; " On Déménage "; " Sidonie "; " Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?
She also has helped with breast cancer awareness ; in September 2008 she participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, to help raise funds to accelerate cancer research.
She has participated in fashion shows displaying red dresses worn on celebrities as well.
She served in the Baltic during the Gunboat War where she participated in the seizure of Anholt Island, and the Channel.
She has participated in duets or provided guest vocals for several of their albums and some have returned the favour, notably Crow and the Dixie Chicks.
She came to know his routines so well that she often participated in them on TV revivals.
She was an assistant surgeon in Napoleon's army and later participated in the Crimean War.
She was the only woman on comedy programme Radio Active, where she played Anna Daptor and other roles, and participated in the televisual equivalent of Radio Active, KYTV.
She won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant in 1978, and participated in Miss California the same year, finishing in sixth position.
She participated in the voyage of the Great White Fleet, and was decommissioned in 1920 to be sold for scrap in 1923.
She participated in school drama club, and in 1933 made her debut in amateur theater, in the lead role in Alice in Wonderland, a production of the Saratoga Community Players based on the work of Lewis Carroll.
She participated in many important naval battles, including the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) during the Crimean War ( 1854 – 1856 ).
She participated in the Crimean War, and after her return to France later housed the French Naval Academy under the name Borda from 1864 to 1890.
She has participated in many advertising campaigns, and performs occasionally as a motivational speaker to young women and aspiring business leaders.
She was only 9 when she participated in it, and now she is a big international acting super-star.
She served against the French from 1756 and participated in the Battle of Lagos ( 1759 ) before being sold in 1765.
She has not participated in candidates ' debates since her 1987 race against Harriet Ross.
She participated along with four other Canadian artists: Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Barenaked Ladies, and Chantal Kreviazuk.
She participated in the musicals Ich Bin Ich ( the German version of The Me Nobody Knows ), Godspell and Show Boat.
She returned to Utah and participated in a wedding, only to find out after the ceremony that Miles was already married.
She became among the best known Australians of the period and participated in early gramophone recording and radio broadcasting.
She refused, and never participated in that vote.
She worked with Argentinian actress Susana Giménez and participated in the Miami-based reality TV program Protagonistas de la Música, where she became one of the audience's favorite contestants.

She and civil
She studied religion, the classics, Latin histories, canon and civil law, heraldry, and genealogy.
She survived a helicopter crash in Sudan in 2000 while trying to learn the fates of her Nuba friends during the Sudanese civil war and was airlifted to a Munich hospital.
She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP ; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.
She also disagreed with King and other leaders of Montgomery's struggling civil rights movement about how to proceed.
She donated most of the money from speaking to civil rights causes, and lived on her staff salary and her husband's pension.
She is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer.
She instigated profound social and civil reforms, as well as the construction of many of the buildings that still today constitute the pride of the city, like the Teatro alla Scala, inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and today one of the world's most famous opera houses.
She inspired generations of African Americans struggling for equality and civil rights ; she was praised by leaders across the political spectrum.
She also became acquainted with Frederick Douglass and became an activist for black civil rights.
She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses and at times personally led the Lancastrian faction.
She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.
She was secretary of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and had recently returned from a meeting at the Highlander Center in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience as a strategy had been discussed.
She appeared in " Equal Opportunities ", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.
She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.
She was the first major artist to perform in Sarajevo since the outbreak of the Yugoslav civil war.
She was arrested with him many times for civil disobedience.
She and Houston lived together for several years, and though he was still married under civil law he married Tiana under the Cherokee law.
She was equally unsuccessful in her efforts to prevent the civil discords between her children.
She immediately set about reducing the size of the civil service, cutting numbers from 732, 000 to 594, 000 over her first seven years in office.
She was active in supporting the civil rights movement during the 1960s, giving benefit concerts for the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
She was deified as a celebrated virtue of Julius Caesar, who was famed for his forbearance, especially following Caesar's civil war with Pompey from 49 BC.
She was discovered by a prominent civil servant when, aged 14, she was performing at a market in Ljungby.
She married civil engineer Robert Henry Fauntleroy in 1835.

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