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Rachel Maddow Wins Best Video Clip Of 2012
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Rachel Maddow Wins Best Video Clip Of 2012
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NYPL Digital Collections
'Biddy Mason. Great story. Born a slave in 1818, her owners got converted to Mormonism and headed west. The other Mormons pressured her owner to free her, but he wouldn't. So she fought for her OWN freedom in California court, and won. They she became a nurse and midwife, one of the first black land owners in LA, amassed 300k which she gave liberally to charities, and founded churches, schools, and aid societies."
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
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See Rachel Maddow's Surprising Yearbook Photo
Rachel Maddow's Yearbook Photo
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Rachel Maddow is awesome!
1850: Feminist Amelia Bloomer wearing her namesake pants
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1850: Feminist Amelia Bloomer wearing her namesake pants
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Deviates, Inc.
Dr. Ethel Rice, Chicago woman physician who was arrested when she wore "male attire" in an attempt to gain entrance to a lecture “For Men Only” at the Wood’s Theatre. The straw hat attracted much attention and Dr. Rice, still in male attire, was taken in by the police.
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They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
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Margaret Sanger
“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” -Margaret Sanger
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Biography of Lucy Stone, Abolitionist and Women's Rights Reformer
Lucy Stone. 1st woman in America to keep her last name upon marriage, 1st Massachusets woman to graduate college, chopped her hair off, scandalously wore precursors to pants, was kicked out of church for arguing that women had the right to own property and to be able to divorce abusive alcoholic husbands (the nerve).
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What Cinderella really needed