Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920
Title | Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920 PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Williams Reese |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780806129990 |
Linda Williams Reese tells of political activist Kate Barnard, who became Oklahoma's Commissioner of Charities and Corrections but fell from political grace, of Alice Robertson, who in 1920 abandoned the acceptable female endeavors of teaching and charity work to become a representative to the U.S Congress, and of Isabel Crawford, missionary to the Kiowas, who confided to her journal, "There are different kinds of hardships and those of the heart and spirit are harder to bear.".
Race, Class, and Culture
Title | Race, Class, and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Williams Reese |
Publisher | |
Pages | 776 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | African American women |
ISBN |
Main Street Oklahoma
Title | Main Street Oklahoma PDF eBook |
Author | Linda W. Reese |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806150548 |
Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both the singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the state’s connections to America’s broader history. Spanning the Civil War era and the present, this book develops historic themes as varied as the causes of Indian land dispossession, the Statehood Day wedding ceremony, the oil industry’s environmental impact, the Tulsa Race Riot, labor relations during the New Deal, the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment, the state’s unique Native artistic traditions, and its musical landscape. Oklahomans have always represented multiple races and cultures, lived in big cities or small towns or on farms, and promoted prosperity and cultural achievement while battling poverty and ignorance. The American Main Street has been the site not only of the best principles of community spirit and traditional values but also of shocking cases of prejudice and violence. Rather than shrinking from difficult subjects, Main Street Oklahoma describes the state’s abundant human, natural, and cultural resources, paying tribute to the true grit of Oklahomans, but also exploring some of the more troubling moments in Oklahoma’s past. The editors and contributors provide engaging perspectives on the state’s rich and diverse history.
Woman Suffrage in Oklahoma 1890-1918
Title | Woman Suffrage in Oklahoma 1890-1918 PDF eBook |
Author | Mattie Louise Ivie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Trail Sisters
Title | Trail Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Williams Reese |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780896728103 |
"Traces the journey of African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations from arrival in Indian Territory to free-citizen status in 1890"--Provided by publisher.
Women in Oklahoma Territory
Title | Women in Oklahoma Territory PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Noever |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma
Title | Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma PDF eBook |
Author | Terri M. Baker |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2014-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806189991 |
They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes with families, sometimes alone. But the women who first came to Oklahoma all had trials to face—and stories to tell. In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. From thousands of interviews conducted by the Work Projects Administration in 1936–37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived. Elegantly written, skillfully edited, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma reflects the everyday will and courage to survive of Oklahoma’s founding mothers. It conveys the violence of a frontier culture set in a landscape of stark beauty where death was always just a heartbeat away. A vital part of the state centennial, theirs is the story of real Oklahoma, writ large—and in a distinctly female hand.