Podcasts: Heidi J. Osselaer
"Winning Their Place:
Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950" - April 4, 2009
Outline of Podcast
Additional Notes
- Sara Heitshu's welcome
- Sara Heitshu welcomes guests and acknowledges her colleague, Bonnie Travers and the other exhibits in the Main Library and the Science & Engineering Library. Talks about her connection with the UA Press and gives examples of subjects they have published. Introduces publicist, Holly Schaffer.
- Holly Schaffer
- Holly Schaffer thanks Special Collections.
- Sara Heitshu introduces Carla Stoffle
- Sara Heitshu introduces Carla Stoffle, Dean of Libraries and the Center for Creative Photography.
- Carla Stoffle
- Carla Stoffle thanks all for coming, acknowledges Sara Heitshu, Holly Schaffer and Bonnie Travers and thanks the Friends of the University of Arizona Libraries. Discusses collaboration with the UA Press and the UA Press awards in the last five years. Introduces author, Heidi J. Osselaer, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University.
- Heidi Osselaer's presentation
- Presentation "Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950" by Heidi J. Osselaer. Osselaer discusses how women have had a long history of success in Arizona politics. She gives short biographical accounts of four women: Frances Willard Munds of Prescott, who ran the successful suffrage campaign from 1909 to 1912, and then was elected to the state senate in 1914; Isabella Greenway, Tucson, who was able to organize women into the Democratic party and was Arizona's first female congresswoman; Nellie Trent Bush of Parker, a riverboat pilot, teacher and businesswoman who entered the state legislature in 1920 and became the first woman to chair the Judiciary Committee; and Lorna Lockwood of Phoenix, the first woman elected to a superior court seat in Arizona, the first woman state supreme court justice, and the first female chief justice of a state supreme court in the US.
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