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Edith Mayo
American historian (born 1940)
Edith P. Mayo (born March 18, 1940) is an American historian.[2] She is curator emerita for political history at the National Museum of American History. Mayo is a subject matter expert on women's suffrage, specifically African American women's suffrage, and the first ladies of the United States. She has been featured on C-SPAN, CNN,[2] The Morning Call,[3] the Los Angeles Times,[4] PBS,[5] The Baltimore Sun,[6] and The Washington Post regarding her areas of focus.[7] In 2020, she was named an honoree of the National Women's History Alliance.[8]
I think as a nation, we have a very deep-seated ambivalence, even a hostility toward power in the hands of women...
Edith Mayo, Democracy in America: They Don't Bake Cookies, on CNN