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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Hard Life Growing Up
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a hard life growing up. Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn,New York March 15,1933.Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993.The only good thing she had was her mother;she died the day before her high school graduation.Ginsburg kept going into her education and lead ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Ginsburg impacted society by making Civil Rights, Academic success true and possible even for a woman and with her personal struggle she went far from how she was raised in low-income.
Ginsburg had a tough time growing up in a low-income working class neighborhood in Brooklyn,New York and only having her mother around no father figure to look up too.Ginsburg mother taught her the value of independence
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