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On this day in 1875:
#ResistanceRoots
— Shooti (@bambooshooti.bsky.social) 2025-08-27T19:53:24.058Z
Katharine Dexter McCormick was born on this day in 1875 in Dexter, Mich. Heir to a large portion of the McCormick fortune after her husband’s death, she was a suffragist and philanthropist who funded most of the research into the development of the first birth control pill. /1