Nominated for the Western Writers of America Spur Award and the Oklahoma Book Award
Who's Rocking the Cradle? Women Pioneers of Oklahoma Politics from Socialism to the KKK, 1900-1930
(PRWEB) January 8, 2005 -- How many women in the twentieth-first century can
say they belong to good citizenship clubs, women's legislative councils, the
Socialist party, or an anonymous organization called Women of the Ku Klux Klan?
Few women today can claim membership in such politically active organization.
But this was not always the case. In Who’s Rocking the Cradle? Women Pioneers of
Oklahoma Politics from Socialism to the KKK, 1900-1930, Suzanne Schrems uncovers
the roots of Oklahoma women's political culture.
Who’s Rocking the
Cradle? begins on the left with the activities of Oklahoma women, who organized
and promoted the Socialist party to Oklahoma farmers during the economic
uncertainty of frontier settlement. But, after the Oklahoma Socialist party
started to wane in 1916, and after passage of women's suffrage in state in 1918,
Oklahoma women, more ideologically centered, became involved in politics to
educated Oklahomans, especially women, to the responsibilities of citizenship
and the meaning of good government.
As the country turned more to the
right after the First World War, so too women's political culture. By the
mid-1920s, many Oklahoma women joined such ultra conservative organizations as
the Ku Klux Klan to fight against what they perceived as erosion in values of
traditional America.
Suzanne Schrems also highlights in Who’s Rocking the
Cradle? the Oklahoma women who ran and were elected to political office. From
Democrat Mrs. Lamar Looney from Hollis, who was elected to the Oklahoma state
house, to Republican Alice Robertson from Muskogee, who was elected to the
United State's house of representative in 1920, Schrems traces Oklahoma women's
political activities and contributions to state and national
politics.
Who’s Rocking The Cradle? Pioneer Women of Oklahoma Politics
from Socialism to the KKK, 1900-1930. Suzanne H. Schrems, Ph.D. ISBN
0-972221727, 15.95, Available from Horse Creek Publications. Ingram, National
Book Network(Biblio), Quality Books.
Contact: Sue Schrems, e-mail protected from
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