In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June 9, 1927) ran for President, with Frederick Douglass as her running mate.
Papers declared her candidacy “a brazen imposture, to be extinguished by laughter rather than by law.”
People — working-class people, people of color, people relegated to the margins of their time and place — clamored to hear her speak, rose up in standing ovation by the thousands, cried and cheered.
Source: How to Make America Great: A Visionary Manifesto from the Woman Who Ran for President in 1872
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