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How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread? Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire , Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann Kate Barnard (18751930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States. Born to hardscrabble settlers on the Nebraska prairie, Barnard committed her energy, courage, and charismatic oratory to the cause of Progressive reform and became a political powerhouse and national celebrity. As a champion of the poor, workers, children, the imprisoned, and the mentally ill, Barnard advocated for compulsory education, prison reform, improved mental health treatment, and laws against child labor. Before statehood, she stumped across the Twin Territories to unite farmers and miners into a powerful political alliance. She also helped write Oklahomas Progressive constitution, creating what some heralded as a new kind of state. But then she took on the so-called Indian Question. Defending Native orphans against a conspirac

Author

Connie Cronley

Publisher

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806177847

Subjects

History, Humanities