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. She was a daughter of U.S. Postmaster General

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and wife of publisher

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. Wanamaker was noted for her civil rights activity and southern newspapers wrote scandalously about her when, in 1905,

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was invited to dine with her family at a hotel and he escorted her to the table, arm-in-arm.

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