Part One: Rebecca Felton: The First Female Senator (was also a pro-lynching activist)
Rebecca Felton, the first female U.S. senator, is remembered not for her suffragette activism but for her deeply racist ideology, including support for lynching and white supremacy—despite her own complex critiques of Southern men and the Confederacy. Her life reveals how privilege, pater
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