California's Remarkable Women
Author: California. Department of Parks and Recreation
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1
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Remarkable Women of California
Author: marilyn deyoung
Publisher:
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780692221662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Golden State has attracted and created more than its share of illustrious, talented and provocative women. Prominent Californian and history buff, Marilyn Brant Chandler DeYoung has spent a lifetime developing friendships with many of these famous and not so famous women, and nearly thirty years capturing their stories. Using historical references, personal interviews, as well as her own personal recollections, DeYoung has crafted an insider's view of these influential women's lives. Her vivid biographies and photos of the ladies give a distinct social history to the women's movement and the growth of California. From philanthropists to athletes, performers and politician, entrepreneurs and educators, First Ladies and writers, Mrs. DeYoung uniquely brings eighty-two 19th and 20th century women to life in her book, Remarkable Women of California.
Remarkable Women of Long Beach
Author: Gerrie Schipske
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the earliest days of Long Beach, California, women have been involved in making their community a quality place in which to live and to work. They have raised families, money, and consciences. They have organized, worked, taught, and led. They have created music, art, theater, and story. They have fought for the right to vote and placed their names on ballots. They stepped up to serve our country and to risk their lives. They have competed in sports, flew planes, and have been successful in business. They are famous and unsung. Most importantly, they are the remarkable women of Long Beach.
Women Trailblazers of California
Author: Gloria G Harris
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-11-16
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1614236216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of biographical profiles, this volume celebrates the lives and achievements of women who made history in the Golden State. Throughout California’s history, remarkable women have been at the core of change and innovation. In this fascinating volume, Gloria Harris and Hannah Cohen relate the stories of forty women whose struggles and achievements have paved the way for generations. Coming from all walks of life and entering a variety of fields—from activism and conservation to science, medicine, entertainment, and more—these women overcame prejudice, skepticism and injustice to prove that women can do anything. Visionary architect Julia Morgan designed Hearst Castle; Dolores Huerta co-founded United Farm Workers; Donaldina Cameron, the angry angel of Chinatown, rescued brothel workers; and silent film actress Mary Pickford helped form United Artists Pictures. From fearless pioneers to determined reformers, Harris and Cohen chronicle the triumphs and disappointments of diverse women who dared to take risks and break down barriers.
Remarkable California Women
Author: Erin H. Turner
Publisher: Falcon Guides
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781560448594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The women who were chosen for this book are remarkable because they are women, not in spite of it, ' writes author Erin H. Turner in her introduction to More than Petticoats: Remarkable California Women. Indeed, the ten women presented here, all born before the twentieth century, were extraordinary not because they took on male roles but because they blazed their own trails and became a part of California's history. Meet Sarah Winchester, the mastermind behind an amazing mystery house; Isadora Duncan, one of the founders of modern dance; Dorothea Lange, a celebrated documentary photographer; and Tye Leung Schulze, who quietly defended the rights of California's Chinese citizens. Just as the state of California is diverse and unique so too are the ten remarkable women in this book. Their lasting contributions are chronicled her in absorbing, historical biographies
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable California Women, 2nd
Author: Erin H. Turner
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780762769803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did California become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable California Women recognizes the women who shaped the Golden State. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.
More Than Petticoats
Author: Erin H. Turner
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProminent Women of Provincial California
Author: Jacob Neibert Bowman
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecoming Citizens
Author: Gayle Gullett
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000-02-07
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0252093313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1880, Californians believed a woman safeguarded the Republic by maintaining a morally sound home. Scarcely forty years later, women in the state won full-fledged citizenship and voting rights by stepping outside the home to engage in robust activism. Gayle Gullett reveals how this enormous transformation came about and the ways women's search for a larger public life led to a flourishing women's movement in California. Though voters rejected women's radical demand for citizenship in 1896, women rebuilt the movement in the early years of the twentieth century and forged critical bonds between activist women and the men involved in the urban Good Government movement. This alliance formed the basis of progressivism, with male Progressives helping to legitimize women's new public work by supporting their civic campaigns, appointing women to public office, and placing a suffrage referendum before the male electorate in 1911. Placing local developments in a national context, Becoming Citizens illuminates the links between women's reform movements and progressivism in the American West.
Remarkable Women of Stockton
Author: Mary Jo Gohlke
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1625849478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen 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.
