Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Frisco System Magazine
Author: A Life on Fire
Author: Connie CronleyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806177756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
“How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?” Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States. Born to hardscrabble settlers on the Nebraska prairie, Barnard committed her energy, courage, and charismatic oratory to the cause of Progressive reform and became a political powerhouse and national celebrity. As a champion of the poor, workers, children, the imprisoned, and the mentally ill, Barnard advocated for compulsory education, prison reform, improved mental health treatment, and laws against child labor. Before statehood, she stumped across the Twin Territories to unite farmers and miners into a powerful political alliance. She also helped write Oklahoma’s Progressive constitution, creating what some heralded as “a new kind of state.” But then she took on the so-called “Indian Question.” Defending Native orphans against a conspiracy of graft that reached from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., she uncovered corrupt authorities and legal guardians stealing oil, gas, and timber rights from Native Americans’ federal allotments. In retaliation, legislators and grafters closed ranks and defunded her state office. Broken in health and heart, she left public office and died a recluse. She remains, however, a riveting figure in Oklahoma history, a fearless activist on behalf of the weak and helpless.
Printers' Ink; the ... Magazine of Advertising, Management and Sales
Author: Papers and Proceedings
Author: American Library InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
List of fellows in 1915 and 1921.
Railway Journal ...
Author: Employes' Magazine
Author: Lehigh Valley Coal CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Strand Magazine
Author: Herbert Greenhough SmithPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Duplicate Periodicals and Serials Available for Exchange, January, 1910
Author: Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Periodical DivisionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Strand Magazine
Author: Sir George NewnesBiennial Report
Author: Kansas State Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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