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Our Forgotton Foremother: Matilda Joslyn Gage

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

June 3, 2009 - 1:56pm

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Nearly 150 years after their radical ideas helped to begin the first
wave of feminism, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are still
household names. However Matilda Joslyn Gage, the outspoken journalist
and early advocate for civil rights who worked closely with them on the
day to day operations of the National Woman Suffrage Association, has
largely been left out of the story.


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