Olympia Brown was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an advocate for women's rights and one of the few first-generation suffragists who could vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

<p>Olympia Brown was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an advocate for women's rights and one of the few first-generation suffragists who could vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.</p>

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