North Dakota -- Politics and government.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alice K. Olson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 356
Abstract
The Alice Olson Papers and accompanying oral history interview provide us with a view of an extremely energetic feminist agent of social change and consciousness during the turbulent years of the 1960s and into the early 1980s. We can see how she interacted with people and politics on a local and national level to bring women into politics as more than just observers of the process, for them to be activists for causes that would elevate womenâs rights to a higher level than they had previously...
Dates:
1968-1983.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Alice K. Olson Papers
Irma Callahan Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 200
Abstract
Active in local and national politics and was a delegate to the National Democratic Primary in 1956.
The Irma Callahan of Fargo's papers from the late 1940s to the late 1960s cover national and state politics, particularly of the Democratic Party. The scrapbooks contain letters from hopeful presidential nominees and telegrams from presidential nominees such as Adlai Stevenson. They show how the political process works on the state and national levels and how the candidates vie for support...
Dates:
1948-1968
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Irma Callahan Papers