Helen Ring Robinson : Colorado senator and suffragist / Pat Pascoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascoe, Pat.

Series:

Timberline books.

Timberline books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robinson, Helen Ring, 1860-1923.

Robinson, Helen Ring.

Colorado. General Assembly. Senate--Biography.

Colorado.

Women legislators--Colorado--Biography.

Women legislators.

Legislators--Colorado--Biography.

Legislators.

Colorado--Politics and government--1876-1950.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Helen Ring Robinson was Colorado's first female state senator and only the second in the United States. Serving from 1913 to 1916, she worked for social and economic justice as a champion of women, children, and workers' rights and education during a tumultuous time in the country's history. Her commitment to these causes did not end in the senate; she continued to labor first for world peace and then for the American war effort after her term ended. Helen Ring Robinson is The first book to focus on this important figure in the women's suffrage movement and the 1913, 1914, and 1915 sessions of

Contents:

Origins

Path to victory

"The housewife of the senate"

The Ludlow Massacre and special session

The "silly" Twentieth General Assembly

Citizen of the world

Afterword : women in Colorado state politics, 1894-2011 / by Stephen J. Leonard

Selected writings by Helen Ring Robinson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781457116926

1457116928

9781607321477

1607321475

OCLC:

767502775