Kansas Women's History

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About Olympia Brown

Olympia Brown, Universalist minister and suffrage worker, took time off from her ministry career to work for suffrage in the Kansas campaign.

Amelia Earhart's Home

Photos of Amelia Earhart's home in Atchinson, Kansas, an example of neo-classical wooden Victorian architecture.

Kansas Women in Literature

An etext version of Nettie Garmer Barker's 1915 40-page book on women writers in Kansas.

Lease, Mary Elizabeth Clyens (1853-1933)

Lease was an orator for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Union Labor party and the Farmers' Alliance or Populist party. She spoke against big business. She was also admitted to the Kansas bar in 1885. She ran for the Senate and was vice president of the World Peace Congress, and eventually moved to New York where she wrote for the New York World. She lived in Texas from 1874 to 1883.

Clarina Nichols

Nichols' role in the Wyandotte convention, including her authorship of several sections on women's rights.

Notable Kansas Women

Short sketches of women who were part of the history of women in Kansas -- mostly women who came from Kansas, but a few who didn't but whose activism in the state was notable.