Oral history interview with Gwendolyn Willis [sound recording], ca. 1959.

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Oral history interview with Gwendolyn Willis [sound recording], ca. 1959.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145790464

Interview with Miss Willis, Racine, Wisconsin, concerning her mother, the Reverend Olympia Brown Willis, a leader of the women's suffrage movement in Wisconsin.

1 tape recording (ca. 64 min.)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6852199

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Brown, Olympia, 1835-1926

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Olympia Brown (January 5, 1835 – October 23, 1926) was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an articulate advocate for women's rights and one of the few first generation suffragists who were able to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Olympia Brown was born on January 5, 1835 in Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan. Brown was the oldest of four children. Her parents, Lephia and Asa...

Willis, Gwendolyn,

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