Rebecca Felton was a major suffragette and the first female senator. She was also, at different points, a slave owner and professional racist who became America's #1 pro-lynching advocate.

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Sources:

https://www.senate.gov/senators/FeaturedBios/Featured_Bio_Felton.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-nations-first-woman-senator-was-a-virulent-white-supremacist-180981150/

https://archive.is/PpZnj#selection-1919.0-1923.192

https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/10695

https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/1898/item/2278

https://www.nhcgov.com/604/Wilmington-Massacre-1898

https://www.neh.gov/article/wilmington-1898-unsupressed-history-massacre

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/when-white-supremacists-overthrew-government/

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/27

https://evhsonline.org/native-american

https://archive.org/details/countrylifeingeo0000felt/page/95/mode/1up?q=slaves+caring+for+a+considerable+number+of+slaves

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674061853?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

 

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