Editing Jeannette Rankin (section)

==Later life==

Over the next twenty years, Rankin travelled the world, frequently visiting India, where she studied the pacifist teachings of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/jeannette-rankin/|title=Rankin, Jeannette|website=National Women's Hall of Fame|language=en-US|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref> She maintained homes in both Georgia and Montana.<ref name="History House" />
[[File:Rankin1973.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Rankin in 1973]]

In the 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of pacifists, feminists, and civil rights advocates found inspiration in Rankin and embraced her efforts in ways that her generation had not. She mobilized again in response to the [[Vietnam War]]. In January 1968, the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, a coalition of women's peace groups, organized an anti-war march in Washington, D.C.—the largest march by women since the [[Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913]].{{sfnp|Smith|2002|p=209}} Rankin led 5,000 participants from [[Washington Union Station|Union Station]] to the steps of the [[United States Capitol|Capitol Building]], where they presented a peace petition to [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|House Speaker]] [[John William McCormack|John McCormack]].<ref name="History House" /><ref name=smith /> Simultaneously, a splinter group of activists from the [[women's liberation movement]] created a protest within the Brigade's protest by staging a "Burial of [[Cult of Domesticity|True Womanhood]]" at [[Arlington National Cemetery]] to draw attention to the passive role allotted to women as wives and mothers.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Moravec|first1=Michelle|title=Another Mother for Peace: Reconsidering Maternalist Peace Rhetoric from an Historical Perspective 1967–2007|journal=Journal of the Motherhood Initiative|date=2010|volume=1|issue=1|pages=9–10|url=http://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/article/view/30916}}</ref> In 1972, Rankin—by then in her nineties—considered mounting a third House campaign to gain a wider audience for her opposition to the Vietnam War,<ref name="History House" /> but longstanding throat and heart ailments forced her to abandon that final project.{{sfnp|Shirley|1995|p=117}}