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“By the Light of the Moon,” A Play by Timothy J. Ray
Collection
Identifier: SC 696
Abstract
Play written by Ray as class project at NDSU. It involves Minnie Craig giving a campaign speech in 1923 in north central North Dakota while making her first run for public office, the North Dakota House of Representatives. Other main character is Ina Brickner (later Ina Cook), a Nonpartisan League volunteer from Fargo, N.D. Mrs. Craig did win the election and became the first woman elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives.
Dates:
1992
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Minnie D. Craig Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 282
Abstract
Minnie Craig was elected in 1923 to the North Dakota House of Representatives where she served for six terms, culminating in 1933, as the first woman speaker of a House of Representatives in the nation. The Minnie D. Craig Papers consists mainly of her handwritten autobiography and two scrapbooks. The 99 page autobiography is incomplete and ends about 1946. The first scrapbook of newspaper clippings deals with Mrs. Craig’s political career in North Dakota, while the other deals with the Craig...
Dates:
1904-1955.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies