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Sex, Suffrage & Scandal
What We Can Learn Today From the First Woman Who Ran For President of the United States BACK IN 1872
2024 marks the 104th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States.... and best-selling author Ann Sharpsteen offers this rollicking new keynote about the bold and colorful life of
Victoria Woodhull, just in time for the Presidential Election season of 2024.
- first woman to run for President of the United States (with running mate Frederick Douglass)
- first woman to publicly advocate for equal rights for women and blacks
- campaigned on platform of "free love" and shorter skirts for women, as well as other more “legitimate” issues
- first woman to open a stock brokerage firm on Wall Street
- worked tirelessly for the women’s suffrage movement.
"A fun look at the scandalous Victoria Woodhull and the raucous presidential politics of the Victorian era."
“Ann’s “Sex, Suffrage & Scandal” talk was lively and entertaining and the perfect backdrop for our luncheon/fundraiser celebrating women and the Suffrage Centennial. Victoria Woodhull’s legacy inspires me to want to change the world, too.”