Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman
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English - May 28, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBPolitics News History joe biden rainbow coalition molly jong-fast right wing media cnn politics larry king carl cameron herman cain eugene debs inside voices Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Victoria Woodhull had a few things stacked against her: She ran for president a half century before women got the right to vote. She ran on a platform of sexual and gender equality that so enraged her political enemies they passed laws to silence her. She spoke about free-love nearly a century before the sexual revolution. Her running mate was a Black man and former slave. Oh, and she spent Election Day behind bars. Indeed, Woodhull might be the longest long shot of them all -- a candidate so visionary she'd still be considered an edgy progressive today.