Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first black woman in North America to edit a newspaper, was born on October 9, 1823.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Happy 195th birthday, Mary Ann!
Mary Ann Shadd Cary is one of the suffragists featured in the first Ask a Suffragist book, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, launching in Spring 2019.
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