In 1887, Kansas granted women the right to vote in municipal elections. Afraid of the temperance movement, some townsmen made a joke nomination for mayor.
Category: Strong Women
Leading on a White Horse, Girl Wants Voting Rights
What image comes to mind when you think of the women’s suffrage movement in America? A woman in a long suffragette white dress? Is she Chinese? She was.
The Daughter of the Desert
The dashing British officer Lawrence of Arabia, is a legend of history. Yet, we should recognize the name, Gertrude Bell, along with (or more than) his.
First Lines for Women’s History Month
Let’s celebrate Women’s History Month with first lines from books about women of history. Would you read one of these? Do you have one you’d recommend?
The Unsolved Murder of Alberta Odell Jones
An African American equal rights trailblazer and the city’s first female and first black prosecuting attorney was brutally murdered. The case remains unsolved.