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During the 1930s the Federal Writers' Project described Omaha as a
"man's town," and histories of the city have all but ignored women.
However, women have played major roles in education, health,
culture, social services, and other fields since the city's
founding in 1854. In The Women Who Built Omaha Eileen Wirth tells
the stories of groundbreaking women who built Omaha, including
Susette "Bright Eyes" LaFlesche, who translated at the trial of
Chief Standing Bear; Mildred Brown, an African American newspaper
publisher; Sarah Joslyn, who personally paid for Joslyn Art Museum;
Mrs. B of Nebraska Furniture Mart; and the Sisters of Mercy, who
started Omaha's Catholic schools. Omaha women have been champion
athletes and suffragists as well as madams and bootleggers. They
transformed the city's parks, co-founded Creighton University,
helped run Boys Town, and so much more, in ways that continue
today.
Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in
journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of
society news, she had no alternative. Her years as one of the first
women reporters at the Omaha World-Herald, covering gender barriers
even as she broke a few herself, give Wirth an especially apt
perspective on the women profiled in this book: those Nebraskans
who, over a hundred years, challenged traditional feminine roles in
journalism and subtly but surely changed the world. The book
features remarkable women journalists who worked in every venue,
from rural weeklies to TV. They fought for the vote, better working
conditions for immigrants, and food safety at the turn of the
century. They covered wars from the Russian Revolution to Vietnam.
They were White House reporters and minority journalists who
crusaded for civil rights. Though Willa Cather may be the only
household name among them, all are memorable, their stories
affording a firsthand look into the history of journalism and
social change.
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