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I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an episode of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.
Synopsis[]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspires Yadina to speak up when the girls are left out of a Nature Troop activity, helping her to realize that she has the power to create change.
Characters[]
Curriculum[]
You have the power to create change.
Trivia[]
- This is the third episode to be 22 minutes, after I Am Harriet Tubman and I Am Fred Rogers.
- This episode takes place before I Am King Sejong the Great because this tells the viewers how Yadina got her translator.
- This is the first time that the translator is shown to work on English, as Yadina suggests that Xavier use it to simplify Ruth's big words.
- In this episode, Yadina's bracelets are made into her translator, and Dr. Zoom is given antennae.
- The case featured in the episode is Frontiero v. Richardson.
- At the end of the episode, the characters acknowledge Ruth's work for disability rights and same-sex marriage.
- In I Am Bessie Coleman, Gary was voiced by Husein Madhavji, but the credits say that Duff McDonald voiced him in this episode.
- Ruth's oral argument, before it is translated to simple English, goes as follows: "Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the Court. Amicus views this case as kin to Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. The legislative judgment in both derives from the same stereotype. The man is, or should be, the independent partner in a marital unit. The woman, with an occasional exception, is dependent, sheltered from bread-winning experience. What is known is that by employing the sex criterion, identically situated persons are treated differently — the married serviceman gets benefits for himself, as well as his spouse, regardless of her income; the married servicewoman is denied medical care for her spouse.."
- The "Appellees stated in..." part is skipped. Everything after "The legislative judgment" is covered up by Xavier, Yadina, and Brad's dialogue.
- Yadina leads the kids to the secret museum for the second time after I Am Mark Twain but Xavier still does the humming.