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Lucy Pickens Research Paper

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I was looking through the “Texas day by day” section on the TSHA website and there was an article that caught my eye. It read, “Lucy Pickens face appears on Confederate $100 Bills.”1 I had never known of any person being on the one-hundred-dollar bill except for Benjamin Franklin, so I decided to look into it. Lucy Pickens was an advocate of the secession.2 She was known as the “Queen of Confederacy.”2 Many thought she was captivatingly beautiful and she was the inspiration behind the stereotype the “Southern Belle.”2 While the picture I see of her is extremely old and the fashion was very different back then, I had pictured something else when I heard the term Southern Belle. I find it extremely interesting to now know who helped shape the

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