Women played prominent roles during Stockton's growth from gold
rush tent city to California leader in transportation, agriculture
and manufacturing. Heiresses reigned in the city's
nineteenth-century mansions. In the twentieth century, women fought
for suffrage and helped start local colleges, run steamship lines,
build food empires and break the school district's color barrier.
Writers like Sylvia Sun Minnick and Maxine Hong Kingston chronicled
the town. Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers.
Harriet Chalmers Adams caught the travel bug on walks with her
father, and Dawn Mabalon rescued the history of the Filipino
population. Join Mary Jo Gohlke, news writer turned librarian, as
she eloquently captures the stories of twenty-two triumphant and
successful women who led a little river city into state prominence.
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