Women -- Political activity -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 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 women‘s 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
Aloha Eagles Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 251
Abstract
The Aloha Eagles Papers document her long and distinguished career as a state legislator, serving in the N.D. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1985 and her active support of women's issues. She introduced legislation that would have legalized North Dakota's abortion law in 1969 and in 1973 she introduced a resolution in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Dates:
1966-1977.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Aloha Eagles Papers
“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
Donna Nalewaja Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 382
Abstract
The Donna Nalewaja Papers consist primarily of her personal papers related to her successful campaigns for the North Dakota House of Representatives and Senate, along with her unsuccessful campaigns for Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senator. The collection also contains personal papers relating to her work in the North Dakota Legislature, as well as correspondence, newspaper clippings, and artifacts relating to her political career from 1982 to 1998. The Donna Nalewaja Collection, largely in the...
Dates:
1982-1998
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Donna Nalewaja 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
Jane Skjei Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 3126
Abstract
The Jane Skjei Collection consists of personal and political material related to the life of Jane Skjei, a prominent leader in women's rights movements.
Dates:
1970s to 2010s
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Jane Skjei Collection
Jane Skjei Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 3037
Abstract
Active leader in the North Dakota chapter of the National Organization for Women, an advocate for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and a pro-choice activist.
Dates:
1972-2010s
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Jane Skjei Papers
League of Women Voters of Fargo Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 83
Abstract
The purpose of the league, organized in 1951 at Fargo, N.D. is to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government. The records document the activities of the organization during the 1950s including minutes, correspondence, reports, budgets, clippings and a scrapbook. The collection includes its newsletter as well as various issues from the leagues in Mandan and Williston and the state-wide organization.
Dates:
1951-2001.
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
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Minnie D. Craig Papers
Round Table (Fargo, N.D.) Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 170
Abstract
It was a study group that provided women with an opportunity to come together and explore various historical subjects. The purpose of the club, as stated in the constitution, was to widen women's outlooks, to keep them in touch with the present and to make them more familiar with the past.
Dates:
1897-1992.