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EPISODE · May 31, 2013 · 59 MIN

Mrs. Keckley's Dresses

from Your Weekly Constitutional · host Stewart Harris

We talk with writer Joan Gage about Elizabeth Keckley, a largely-forgotten woman who rose from slavery to become a seamstress and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, and who wrote a memoir of her remarkable life.And attorney Joanie Burroughs tells us about Beate Gordon, who almost single-handedly wrote women's rights into the Japanese Constitution after World War II.

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