Kansas Women's History
Resources on women's history in the state of Kansas. Famous women, museums, events in history, etc. If you've got a suggestion for additional listings, please send an email to womenshistory.guide@about.com
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.