| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations |
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Timberline books |
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Timberline books.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Robinson, Helen Ring, 1860-1923.
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| SUBJECT |
Robinson, Helen Ring, 1860-1923
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Robinson, Helen Ring, 1860-1923 fast |
| Subject |
Colorado. General Assembly. Senate -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
Colorado. General Assembly. Senate fast |
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Women legislators -- Colorado -- Biography
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Legislators -- Colorado -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
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Legislators
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Politics and government
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Women legislators
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| SUBJECT |
Colorado -- Politics and government -- 1876-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028677
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| Subject |
Colorado
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011030828 |
| ISBN |
1607321475 |
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9781607321477 |
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1457116928 |
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9781457116926 |
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