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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
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Author: The Girl Who Dared to Defy
Author: Jane Little BotkinPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the status quo for “girls,” as well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this compelling biography is the first to chronicle her defiant efforts—and devastating misfortunes—as a leader of the so-called housemaid rebellion. A native of Indiana, Jane Street (1887–1966) began her activist endeavors as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In riveting detail, author Jane Little Botkin recounts Street’s attempts to orchestrate a domestic mutiny against Denver’s elitist Capitol Hill women, including wives of the state’s national guard officers and Colorado Fuel and Iron operators. It did not take long for the housemaid rebellion to make local and national news. Despite the IWW’s initial support of the housemaids’ fight for fairness and better pay, Street soon found herself engaged in a gender war, the target of sexism within the very organization she worked so hard to support. The abuses she suffered ranged from sabotage and betrayal to arrests and abandonment. After the United States entered World War I and the first Red Scare arose, Street’s battle to balance motherhood and labor organizing began to take its toll. Legal troubles, broken relationships, and poverty threatened her very existence. In previous western labor and women’s studies accounts, Jane Street has figured only marginally, credited in passing as the founder of a housemaids’ union. To unearth the rich detail of her story, Botkin has combed through case histories, family archives, and—perhaps most significant—Street’s own writings, which express her greatest joys, her deepest sorrows, and her unfortunate dealings with systematic injustice. Setting Jane’s story within the wider context of early-twentieth-century class struggles and the women’s suffrage movement, The Girl Who Dared to Defy paints a fascinating—and ultimately heartbreaking—portrait of one woman’s courageous fight for equality.
Red Book
Author: Alice EichholzPublisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9781593311667
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.
History of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Author: Adolf W. SchalckPublisher:
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Category : Schuylkill County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations
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Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Formerly known as the International Citation Manual"--p. xv.
Genealogy of the Dart Family in America
Author: Thaddeus Lincoln BoltonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Marriages of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1868
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309423
Category : British Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The marriage records abstracted here derive from microfilm copies of the original bonds and from a microfilm copy of a register of marriage bonds maintained from 1851 by the clerk of the county court. The arrangement is alphabetical by the surname of the groom, and each entry has the name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond and, where recorded, the names of the minister, witnesses, and bondsmen. About 9,000 marriage bonds are abstracted.
Crocker's Sacramento City and County Directory
Author: Ukrainian Genealogy
Author: John D. PihachPublisher: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A guide to tracing one's Ukrainian ancestry in Europe.
Sacramento (Sacramento County, Calif.) City Directory
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Category : Sacramento (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1452
Book Description