Women at Work: Mary Ann Shadd Cary

 

She was both the first black North American woman to publish and edit a newspaper and the first to be admitted to law school. #19forthe19th @usnatarchives
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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. Get it today!

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Women at Work: Mary Ann Shadd Cary