Letters from Kate Richards O'Hare to her family from April 20, 1919, to May 27, 1920 : typescript, 1921.

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Letters from Kate Richards O'Hare to her family from April 20, 1919, to May 27, 1920 : typescript, 1921.

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Letters written to her family while O'Hare was in prison, concerning American politics, World War I, and personal and family matters. The letter dated 1921 concerns O'Hare's release from prison and appointment as a delegate of the city of Milwaukee to the Institute on Venereal Disease Control and Social Hygiene and the All-American Conference on Venereal Disease Control, held in Washington D.C., 22 Nov.-10 Dec. 1920.

1 v. (197 leaves) ; 28 cm.

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Kate Richards O'Hare was born on Mar. 26, 1876 to Andrew and Lucy Richards, Kansas farmers devastated by the depression of the 1870s. In 1895, Kate was introduced to socialism by Eugene Debs, and later met Mother Jones and other socialists in Kansas City, where she lived. Kate joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1899, which she left in 1901 to help found the Socialist Party of America. She married fellow socialist Frank P. O'Hare in 1902. A socialist leader, she spoke across America against WWI ...