Saturday, May 18, 2024

Rebecca Latimer Felton speaks on video (1929)

A video interview with Rebecca Ann Felton (née Latimer; 1835–1930), the year before her death. For one day in 1922, at age 87, she served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia, making her the first woman to serve as U.S. Senator and the last former enslaver to do so.

A book about women who legally owned people:

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