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Photo of Sylvie Thygeson, 1971.
NARRATOR: This is Sylvie Thygeson. She is 105 years old. In 1914 she was a housewife in St. Paul, Minnesota.
SYLVIE THYGESON: To my mind the whole process is a process of evolution. And I thought as the world progressed and went on further, that men and women would come to have absolutely equal rights. They'd be human beings; not men, not sexes.
NARRATOR: Sylvie Thygeson is one of the women who helped to finish the American Revolution. 144 years after it began.
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Photo Courtesy of:
Sherna Berger Gluck