Chief Justice Pamela B. Minzner
One of approximately twenty women in the Harvard law class of five hundred, she and her female classmates found their job search after law school challenging. Law firms were recruiting male graduates but ignoring the women. The female students, well versed in their...
Carrie Wooster Tingley
Carrie Wooster was born in Bowling Green, Ohio, on May 20, 1877, to a wealthy family. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, which had stricken her father, she traveled to the southwest in 1911 with her mother. Intending to reach Arizona, mother and daughter left the train in...
Carlotta Thompkins Thurmond “Lottie Deno”
Carlotta Thompkins “Lottie Deno” Thurmond lived a life of legend, and in so doing, likely became the inspiration for the Miss Kitty character in the popular TV series Gunsmoke. Born in Warsaw, Kentucky, on April 21, 1844, her early life, particularly her...
Captive Women and Children of Taos County
From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth century, raiding and trading human beings, especially women and children, occurred with regularity in New Mexico. Native Americans took and traded human captives among themselves as well as in the communities in...
Anita Scott Coleman
Novelist Anita Scott Coleman was an important western voice in the Harlem Renaissance, an early-twentieth-century movement of flourishing social, artistic, and political innovation among African Americans. The movement, known at the time as the “New Negro...