Women’s History Month, Day 7: Roberta Applegate
For the seventh day of Women’s History Month, I am continuing to focus on Miami Herald women’s page journalists: club editor Roberta Applegate. She highlighted the important work that women’s clubs were doing as Miami grew. She left the Herald in 1964 to become a journalism professor at Kansas State University where she taught about women’s page reporting.
Prior to working at the Herald, she was a reporter for the Associated Press in Michigan. A few years ago, I nominated her for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. I was happy that she was accepted. This is me speaking at the induction ceremony for Roberta.
Here is my article about her from the Michigan History Magazine.
Her papers are in the National Women & Media Collection. She wrote her parents almost weekly and provide great insight to her life and career.
