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Essay about the Patriot-News and its women’s section
I just came across this essay, the Hook blog article, Suffragist city: Beginnings and endings on Women’s Equality Day: In fact, when I began my career as a reporter at the Harrisburg Patriot News in 1961, one of my first assignments was covering the 41st anniversary of this Amendment. I was one of six women on the newspaper, all of us assigned to the Women’s Section, which, ironically, was edited by a man. For my story, I reviewed the history of the women’s movement back to the first Women’s Rights Convention convened by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in 1848. It took until 1920– 72 years of struggle— to…
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Letter about Colleen “Koky” Dishon
I just received a copy of this great letter about Colleen “Koky” Dishon – a longtime women’s page editor and the first woman on the masthead of the Chicago Tribune. The letter is in response to my article in this summer’s Timeline Magazine. The letter writer was a childhood friend of Koky’s. The two women attended the 1944 GOP convention in Chicago together when Koky was reporting for the Associated Press. I loved reading about Koky’s early years as a reporter.
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Drue Lytle article
In one of Penney-Missouri Awards’ Director Paul Myhre’s letters to Honolulu Advertiser women’s page editor Drue Lytle, he mentions an article about Drue that was published in the Kappa Alpha Theta magazine. The letter was dated in Januray of 1963. I contacted the Kappa Alpha Theta media coorindator who was kind enough to go through their archives and scan this article. It provides some significant details about Drue’s life. My thanks to the Kappa Alpha Theta folks!
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Drue Lytle letters
I received a great package from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection yesterday with information about Drue Lytle – the women’s page editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards in the 1960s. Her letters back and forth with Awards’ director Paul Myhre can be found in the Penney-Missouri Awards papers. I did not find a biographical piece about Drue, but the letters were helpful. Clearly, these women like Drue – with help from Paul – were pushing to change the content of women’s pages. For example, Drue was working to add more medical and health news in her section and she was winning awards for it. I hope…
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Celebrating Vivian Castleberry
We are making plans to attend two events in Dallas to celebrate former women’s page editor and peace advocate Vivian Castleberry. The Peace Institute at the University of North Texas will be named for Vivian. I am excited to see Vivian again after two years. I am working on a book about her long career.
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Celebrating Roxcy Bolton on August 26
Miami feminist Roxcy Bolton was honored on Thursday as part of the March for Equality – the 90th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. In the 1960s and 1970s, Roxcy worked to raise awareness about inequities women faced. She often did this with the help of Miami Herald women’s page journalists – including Marie Anderson. Miami’s CBS News did a great job about Roxcy:“Thursday marked an important day in the history of women’s suffrage. It was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote. A feminist pioneer responsible for creating this day of tribute is Roxcy Bolton. She is…
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