Awesome Women: Geraldine Ferraro

The Woman of the Day is Geraldine Ferraro, born in 1935 and died today. A  savvy New York Democrat, she was an attorney, a Democratic Party  notable, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (New  York/Queens). In 1984 she was embraced as a symbol of women's equality  when she became the first Italian-American and first woman to be a  major-party Vice Presidential nominee, selected by Walter Mondale who  tried to unseat Ronald Reagan.

My Awesome Woman posts were first written for and published to a closed Facebook group, and are republished here.