This Day in Women’s History

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Rebecca Latimer was graduated first in her class from the Madison Female College, Madison, Georgia, in 1852 and the following year married William H. Felton, a local physician active in liberal Democratic politics. She assisted her husband in his political career (as a U.S. congressman and later in the state legislature), writing speeches, planning campaign strategy, and later helping to draft legislation. Together the Feltons promoted penal reform, temperance, and women’s rights. Rebecca Felton was equally outspoken in her prejudice against African Americans and Jews and her advocacy of…