U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, actress Jane Fonda and attorney Gloria Allred are among the latest inductees at the National Women's Hall of Fame.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, actress Jane Fonda and attorney Gloria Allred were among the inductees at the National Women's Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Davis, a onetime leader of the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party USA who was prosecuted for her alleged involvement in a 1970 courthouse shootout and ultimately acquitted, said her activism was not hers alone. "It shows up in the nominations because we ask the general public," Ramanujan said,"and in a time when women are feeling like their voices need to be heard, they're nominating women whose voices were loud."
Fonda's selection led the Seneca Falls town supervisor to threaten to pull funding from the site. Greg Lazzaro wrote in a resolution, which did not pass, that Fonda's activism during the Vietnam War"brought divisiveness to our country." "We don't cull the list because of protest," Ramanujan said."We do also respect that people have different opinions, and we mean no disrespect to anyone."
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