Roberta “Bobbi” Applegate

Roberta “Bobbi” Applegate was a women’s page journalist in Michigan in the 1940s, before becaming an Associated Press reporter covering the statehouse during World War II. She went on to be the club editor for the Miami Herald’s women’s pages in the 1950s and early 1960s.

I appreciate the funding I received for researching Bobbi, including a $8,000 Summer Research Fellowship from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a travel grant from the University of Michigan.

Read more about Roberta in my article in the Michigan History Magazine, April 2008.

Here’s more about it:
http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/breaking-barriers-in-michigan/

Roberta was recently inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

Her papers are located in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection.