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Remarkable women of stockton / Mary Jo Gohlke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gohlke, Mary Jo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women played prominent roles during Stockton's growth from gold rush tent city to California leader in transportation, agriculture and manufacturing. Heiresses reigned in the city's nineteenth-century mansions. In the twentieth century, women fought for suffrage and helped start local colleges, run steamship lines, build food empires and break the school district's color barrier. Writers like Sylvia Sun Minnick and Maxine Hong Kingston chronicled the town. Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers. Harriet Chalmers Adams caught the travel bug on walks with her father, and Dawn Mabalon rescued the history of the Filipino population. Join Mary Jo Gohlke, news writer turned librarian, as she eloquently captures the stories of twenty-two triumphant and successful women who led a little river city into state prominence.
- Contents:
- The Sperry sisters: rich and famous in the golden age
- Julia Weber: Stockton's own royalty
- Inez Budd: California's first lady
- L. Clare Davis: club founder and enterprising journalist
- Sarah Gillis: she ran the steamships
- Lottie Ruggles: a local belle in Europe
- Anna Brown Holt: not a socialite
- Harriet Chalmers Adams: international explorer and speaker
- Dr. Margaret Smyth: leader in national mental health
- Tillie Lewis: undisputed "tomato queen"
- Edna Gleason: "they call me dynamite"
- Emily Knoles: building a university
- Elizabeth Humbargar: fought wartime injustice
- Wilhelmina Henry and Flora Mata: breaking the color barrier
- Joan Darrah: strong mayor leaves a legacy
- Dolores Huerta: crusader for human rights
- Sylvia Sun Minnick: too tough to quit loving
- Maxine Hong Kingston: behind the black curtains
- Dr. Dawn Mabalon: Little Manila's champion
- Beverly Fitch McCarthy: frankly feminist.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781625849472
- 1625849478
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