After years of planning, Eunice Kennedy Shriver opened the first Special Olympics game in 1968. Her brother, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated just seven weeks before. Today, by one estimate, more than three million Special Olympic athletes from all 50 states and 181 countries around the world take part in year-round training for the games. Shriver believed in justice for those with different abilities. Join us on this episode of Ballot & Beyond to learn more about the founder of the Special Olympics.
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Clara Barton | Battlefield to Ballot Box
Edna Latimer | Hiking for Suffrage
U.S. Senator Verda Welcome | True Public Servant
Elizabeth King Ellicott | Women in Government
The Melvin Family | Rural Suffrage Leaders
Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham & Lucy Branham | Mother-Daughter Suffrage Team
Henrietta Lacks | The Immortal
Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn | African American Suffrage History
Ballot & Beyond: Victorine Q. Adams | Energizing African American Voters
Ballot & Beyond: Lavinia Margaret Engle | Protecting Women's Voting Rights
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Ballot & Beyond: Judge Diana G. Motz | Protecting Women's Rights
Ballot & Beyond: Lucille Clifton | Maryland State Poet Laureate
Ballot & Beyond: Lucy Diggs Slowe | First Lady of Tennis
Ballot & Beyond: The Honorable Rita C. Davidson | Serving Maryland's Highest Court
Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Liebe Sokol Diamond | Renowned Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Ballot & Beyond: Sara A. Whitehurst | Jury Service for Women
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