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A woman who wanted to be a doctor in the 1850’s more or less needed to start her own medical school. When Elizabeth Blackwell applied in 1847, she was turned down everywhere. Harvard, Yale, Bowdoin, and every medical school in New York City and…

More tax protests! 15 years after Lucy Stone’s tax protest, even more women refused to be taxed until they were represented. Dec 16, 1873 - 100 years since the Boston Tea Party - Dr. Clemence Lozier called for a mass tax protest in New York. “One…