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How Bicycles Influenced Women’s Rights

Did you know bicycles played a role in the women’s movement?

In this video, Ilene Frank, the Chief Curator and COO of the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library discusses how bikes evolved women’s clothing around the turn of the 20th century with the invention of the safety bicycle.

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