Part Two: Rebecca Felton: The First Female Senator (was also a pro-lynching activist)
Rebecca Felton, the first female U.S. senator, was a complex and contradictory figure whose early advocacy for women’s rights and prison reform was overshadowed by her virulent racism, support for lynching, and white supremacist ideology, shaped by trauma from the Civil War and a deep-sea
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