Female Candidates
Neither Elizabeth Dole nor Shirley Chisholm was the first woman to run a serious campaign for president (letter, Oct. 26). If women’s history were not so invisible, we would have already known that Victoria Woodhull ran in the 1872 presidential election, followed by Belva Lockwood in 1884. These two ran before women even had the right to vote. Talk about heroes!
REGINA F. LARK
Canoga Park
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