The Nation's First Woman Senator Was a Virulent White Supremacist
Source: Smithsonian
A century ago, on November 21, 1922, suffragists flocked to the Senate Chamber to watch 87-year-old Rebecca Latimer Felton become the country’s first woman senator. “The grand old woman from Georgia,” as newspapers dubbed her, had spent half her life fighting for women’s rights in her home state. Now grayed and bent, she raised her right hand and swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, prompting a roar of…
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