Papers, 1917, 1935-1973

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Papers, 1917, 1935-1973

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Correspondence, photographs, etc., of Flora Belle Surles, WPA supervisor and publisher.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Rankin graduated from the University of Montana in 1902. She subsequently attended the New York School of Philanthropy (later the New York, then the Columbia, School of Social Work) before embarking on a care...

Esther R. Gregorie

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FLORA BELLE SURLES, 1887-1971?

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Flora Belle Surles was born on October 20, 1887, in Crenshaw County, Alabama, the daughter of Mary Ellen (King) and Robert Lewis Surles. She attended business school in Montgomery and graduated from Alabama Girls Technical College. In 1917 she went to Washington, D.C., to represent the business interests of a group of southern lumbermen. After World War I she took a secretarial post with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, where in 1924 she met Jeannette Rankin. ...