Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} More Than Petticoats Remarkable Kentucky Women by Mimi O'Malley More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women. The world’s #1 eTextbook reader for students. VitalSource is the leading provider of online textbooks and course materials. More than 15 million users have used our Bookshelf platform over the past year to improve their learning experience and outcomes. With anytime, anywhere access and built-in tools like highlighters, flashcards, and study groups, it’s easy to see why so many students are going digital with Bookshelf. titles available from more than 1,000 publishers. customer reviews with an average rating of 9.5. digital pages viewed over the past 12 months. institutions using Bookshelf across 241 countries. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women by Mimi O'malley and Publisher Globe Pequot Press. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780762783786, 0762783788. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women by Mimi O'malley and Publisher Globe Pequot Press. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780762783786, 0762783788. February Reads. Miracle for Jen by Linda Barrick. This is the incredible story of 15-year-old Jennifer Barrick who was hit by a drunk driver along with her family. She was in a coma for five weeks while her mother (the author) pleaded with God to heal her of her severe brain trauma. As Jen slept she rested in God’s presence and was forever changed when she woke up. I don’t read a lot of books like this one but I found it incredibly encouraging. What an awesome reminder of how mighty God is! I highly recommend this one. Please note that I did receive a free copy of this book from Tyndale in exchange for my review. Mommy Time by Sarah Arthur. As a relatively new mom (my son is only 3) and someone who just found out they are expecting again (hooray) I was really excited to read this book. It was written as a devotional for new moms to read during the first couple months of being a mother. It wasn’t a bad book but it didn’t strike me as very devotional after reading it. There is a Bible passage on each page but the words that Arthur wrote after that don’t have that much to do with the Bible verse. Honestly I just felt like the book was pretty shallow. I vividly still remember the first couple months of being a new mom. I didn’t need someone’s opinions and stories from being a mom as my “devotion for the day.” What I needed was the Gospel-just give me Jesus! I needed to soak my teeth into the Scriptures even if it was only for a few minutes and be refreshed. Being a new mother is tough and this book sure didn’t cut it for me. A big disappointment. During my first year of being a mom I wrote a blog post entitled “Creative Ways to Spend More Time With God.” One of the biggest changes for me personally when I became a new mom was not having all of this wonderful time to spend as much time as I wanted reading my Bible. Please note I did receive an advanced reader copy in exchange for my review. Faithmapping by Daniel Montgomery & Mike Cosper: I was pretty excited to read this book since the authors were both pastors at the church where my husband attended (Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY) before we got married. Isn’t that neat? I found myself forcing myself to only read one chapter most days so that I could really soak up what the chapter had to say to me personally. It was so good that it was hard to put down. I loved how the authors brought together many different aspects of Christianity together in a way that few books have done. I found this book’s emphasis on the Gospel, the Church, and the World so helpful. It is incredibly solid theologically and yet very practical. I would recommend it to all Christians. Please note I did receive a complimentary copy of this book from Crossway in exchange for my review. Raising Baby Green by Alan Greene: As a somewhat crunchy mama (I love breastfeeding, cloth diapers, attachment parenting, & whole foods) I was incredibly disappointed by this book. I felt like there was a huge disconnect with this book. The author is clearly not in the real world. I would love to only dress my children in organic clothing but that just isn’t going to happen. We do our part for the environment by purchasing most of our clothing used, cloth diapering almost exclusively, cooking from scratch, raising a garden, breastfeeding, and many other things. If you aren’t in the real world and have an unlimited budget this is probably a great book for you. I however thought it was really lame. Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening by Louise Riotte : I’ve been interested in companion planting for a while and decided February was the perfect time to learn all about it. (Companion planting means that some plants grow better when they are planted next to certain plants.) The book itself is actually more of a dictionary where you can look up a specific plant and then read about what it grows best with. I skimmed the book and took notes on all of the plants I plan on planting this year. I plan on putting into practice a lot of the book’s advice in my garden this summer so we shall see. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women by Mimi O’Malley: As a native Kentuckian I found this book about incredible Kentucky women fascinating. Having taken Kentucky history as a history major in college and having lived in Kentucky my entire life I was semi-familiar with many of the women in this book. It was wonderful to get to read a short biography of each one. Some of them were absolutely fascinating including Mary Breckinridge who founded the first midwifery service in Kentucky. It just so happens that it is located in my college roommate’s hometown. Overall a pretty neat book and a gem to find at my local library. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Kiosk. Women’s suffrage was never voted on in Kentucky. The legislature passed Presidential Suffrage in 1919 and ratified the 19th Amendment on January 6, 1920. 2a. State Suffrage History. Kentucky and the 19th Amendment. National Park Service. Kentucky was on the forefront of the movement for women’s suffrage, not just in the South but in the nation. Women who were heads of households and taxpayers won the right to vote on tax and education issues in rural areas of Kentucky in 1838, ten years before the Seneca Falls Convention. That makes Kentucky the first place anywhere in the country where women could participate in the electoral process since New Jersey revoked women’s access to the ballot in 1807. In 1894, women won school suffrage in Lexington, Covington, and Newport. The Kentucky legislature reversed itself in 1902 and took away this limited suffrage over fears that African American women voters would support Republican candidates for school board. After a concentrated lobbying campaign by the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs, women in these cities won school suffrage back in 1912 but with an added literacy test for women voters. Like literacy tests instituted in other states and municipalities around the country, the added requirement was designed to exclude Black voters. Women in Kentucky were active in organizing for woman suffrage. Virginia Penny of Louisville became Vice President of the American Equal Rights Association in 1867. That same year, women in Glendale organized a local suffrage association, the first in the South. More followed in the 1870s. Mary Barr Clay of Richmond served as vice-president of both the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), the two national suffrage organizations. Daughter of abolitionist Cassius M. Clay, Mary helped bring the AWSA Annual Convention to Louisville in 1881, the first national suffrage convention held south of the Mason-Dixon line. She served as AWSA president from 1883-84. Mary’s younger sister Laura Clay founded the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association which was the first state-wide suffrage organization in the South. Laura was also involved in leadership in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. The Clay sisters also joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) when the two national organizations united in 1890. In 1913, Laura Clay became Vice President of the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, founded by Kate Gordon, to coordinate efforts across the South to win the vote in the states. The early suffrage efforts in Kentucky included advocacy for equal rights for both African Americans and women. But by the twentieth century, the woman suffrage associations were segregated. Dr. Mary E. Britton, the first African American woman physician in Lexington, was an activist for many civic causes, including women’s right to vote. She wrote articles and participated in demonstrations against racial segregation and was president of the local Woman’s Improvement Club. Despite all of the activism, women in Kentucky were not able to expand their enfranchisement beyond school suffrage. This led a few Kentucky suffragists to shift their focus to passage of the federal amendment. Some even joined the National Woman’s Party protests at the White House. At least one Kentuckian, Cornelia Beach, was arrested along with other picketers in August 1917. After decades of arguments for and against women’s suffrage, Congress finally passed of the 19th Amendment in 1919. After Congress approved the 19th Amendment, at least 36 states needed to vote in favor of it for it to become law. This process is called ratification. On January 6, 1920, Kentucky voted to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Two months later, on March 29, 1920, the Kentucky legislature also passed a measure allowing women to vote in presidential elections. That law became unnecessary because on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment, ensuring that in every state, the right to vote in any election could not be denied based on sex. National Park Service https://www.nps.gov/articles/kentucky-and-the-19th-amendment.htm [Permission to reproduce the article above is pending.] 2b. State Suffrage History. Overview of Kentucky Suffrage. by Randolph Hollingsworth, H-Net. In 1838, Kentucky passed the first statewide woman suffrage law (since New Jersey revoked theirs with their new constitution in 1807) – allowing female heads of household to vote in elections deciding on taxes and local boards for the new county “common school” system. The law exempted the cities of Louisville, Lexington and Maysville since they had already adopted a system of public schools. Kentucky was crucial as a gateway to the South for women’s rights activists. Lucy Stone came through Louisville in November 1853 – wearing her own version of Amelia Bloomer trousers – earned $600 with thousands packing the halls each night. After the Civil War, when the 13th Amendment was ratified by 2/3 of the states — not including Kentucky — on January 1, 1866, Lexington’s Main Street was filled with African Americans in a military parade, followed by Black businesspeople and several hundred children with political speeches at Lexington Fairgrounds (now the University of Kentucky). By March a Black Convention was held in Lexington to discuss equal rights for Blacks. The next year, for July 4th, a barbecue organized in Lexington by Black women included speeches made by both Black and by White speakers in favor of black suffrage and ratification of the 14th Amendment. That fall, another Black Convention included a debate on how to gain full civil rights for Blacks, including the right to vote and the right to testify in court against whites. The American Equal Rights Association formed out of the 11th National Women’s Rights Convention and a merger with former abolitionists — they wanted to lobby the new federal government and the states for full rights for all citizens. In 1867 Virginia Penny of Louisville was elected Vice-President – her first book, The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman’s Work was recently published (1863). In 1867, the first suffrage association in the South is in Kentucky – Glendale, with 20 members, near Elizabethtown. Also first in the South, Kentuckians formed two suffrage associations – one in Madison County and the other in Fayette County. These started in the 1870s under the leadership of Mary Barr Clay who has already begun serving in both the national suffrage associations (NWSA and AWSA) as vice-president. In October 1881, the AWSA held its national convention in Louisville, Kentucky – the first such convention south of the Mason-Dixon line. The success of this convention and the accompanying public lectures was due to the organizational efforts of Mary Barr Clay as well as prestigious Louisville women such as Susan Look Avery. At this convention, the first statewide suffrage association in Kentucky was founded, and the youngest of the Clay sisters, Laura, was elected president. This is the first suffrage organization to represent a state in the South. Meanwhile, black women worked in their local and state organizations to rally for the right to vote. In July 1887 Mary E. Britton spoke for woman suffrage at the Kentucky Colored Teachers Association meeting in Danville. When the two national suffrage groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890, Laura Clay became the main voice for Southern white clubwomen. She led many campaigns through the South and the West on behalf of the NAWSA while she continues to support efforts in Kentucky to proliferate city/county suffrage associations — seven of them by 1890. In February 1894 Sallie Clay Bennett (Laura’s older sister) spoke on behalf of the NAWSA before the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage emphasizing the right of black men and women to vote because all were citizens. Mrs. Bennett wrote a political treatise that was presented to Congress by Senator Lindsay and Rep. McCreary on behalf of the NAWSA, “asking Congress to protect white and black women equally with black men against State denial of the right to vote for members of Congress and the Presidential electors in the States…” – writing private letters to every member of Congress and sending copies to editors of newspapers in every state. Eugenia B. Farmer of Covington figured out that the charters for second-class cities in Kentucky were up for renewal and the Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA) lobbied successfully in the Kentucky Constitutional Convention to get the legislature to grant those municipalities the right to grant woman suffrage. In March 1894 the Kentucky General Assembly granted school suffrage to women in the cities of Lexington, Covington and Newport; and, Josephine Henry succeeded in her lobbying for the state law for a Married Woman’s Property Act. In 1902, because of the fear of an organized bloc of Lexington’s African-American women registered to vote for school board members in the Republican Party, the Kentucky legislature revoked this partial suffrage. The Kentucky Association of Colored Women’s Clubs formed in 1903 with 112 clubs, and suffrage was a part of the efforts undertaken by their clubs. From the perspective of those who emphasized the strategy of gaining a federal amendment, the period 1896-1910 seemed to be a lull in the movement’s energies. Eleanor Flexner, an early historian of women’s suffrage, followed the lead taken by Elizabeth Cady Stanton that work in state clubs or the South as a whole was not important to the national movement. The newly organized Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs (whites only) formed and lobbied to regain school suffrage in Kentucky, finally winning it back in 1912 with an added proviso (just for women) of a “literacy” test. In 1912 Laura Clay stepped down as president of KERA in favor of her distant cousin Madeline McDowell Breckinridge; and in 1913 Clay was elected to lead a new organization, the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, founded to win the vote through state enactment. That fall, Louisville celebrated the centennial of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory over the British in the War of 1812 – and a suffrage float was included, the first known public parade for Kentucky suffragists. Parades were becoming an important part of suffrage activism across the nation. Lexington followed up with a May Day celebration of suffrage with a parade in 1915 and again in 1916. With the start of the First World War, many Kentucky women transitioned their suffrage work into patriotic efforts for the war. When the United States entered the war formally in 1917, a small group of Louisville women joined in with the National Women’s Party to protest President Woodrow Wilson’s change of heart. Most Kentucky suffragists openly condemned the public protests by the NWP. Cornelia Beach and Edith Callahan attended the annual conference of the NWP as delegates from Kentucky, and in August 1917 Cornelia Beach participated in the picketing of the White House. She was arrested, refused to pay the fine and together with a few others was released on a $100 bond. The rest were sent to jail. In August 1918 Laura Clay and Mrs. Harrison G. (Elizabeth Dunster) Foster, formerly a suffrage leader in Washington, formed the Citizens Committee which formally broke with KERA – and the next year, Laura Clay finally quit working for NAWSA. The group focused on securing a state suffrage bill in Kentucky. Kentucky’s statewide presidential suffrage for women, a goal long sought by those in KERA and those of the former AWSA, is signed into law on March 29, 1920. In the early days of January 1920, National Woman’s Party members Dora Lewis and Mabel Vernon traveled to Kentucky to assure success, and on January 6th, Kentucky became the 23rd state to ratify the 19th Amendment. On December 15, 1920, the Kentucky Equal Rights Association officially became the Kentucky League of Women Voters. Mary Bronaugh of Louisville was the first president of the state chapter. 3. State Suffragists. Desha Breckinridge, husband of Madeline Breckinridge Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Dr. Mary E. Britton, first African American woman physician in Lexington, activist president of the local Woman’s Improvement Club, wrote articles and participated in demonstrations against racial segregation Mattie Griffith Browne Laura Clay, White Hall, organized a women’s rights rally in Frankfort with her sisters in 1884, lectured, lobbied and ran large farm, promoted states’ rights and segregation, opposed federal amendment Mary Barr Clay, Richmond, vice-president of both the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association Eliza Calvert Hall Elizabeth Dunster Foster Virginia Penny, Louisville, vice-president of the American Equal Rights Association in 1867 Lucie Wilmot Smith, Louisville, through her journalism kept women’s rights before Black readers. Katherine Peden. Katherine Graham Peden (January 2, 1926 – January 8, 2006) was the first woman appointed as the Commissioner of Commerce in Kentucky. Peden was engaged in economic growth policy-making at the national and state levels during the 1960s and 70s. She was appointed to advisory positions by United States Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson. and Jimmy Carter during a time that few women were selected to serve in these positions. She was the first woman in Kentucky to win a statewide Senate primary. In 1969 she was appointed to the board of directors of MeadWestvaco, then called Westvaco, becoming one of the first women in the nation named to a Fortune 500 company board of directors. The company credited Peden for their decision to build a major plant near Wickliffe, Kentucky, on the Mississippi River in far western Kentucky. [1] Contents. Early life and education [ edit ] Katherine Graham was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1926. [2] Her father, William Edward Peden (1887–1973), was a construction supervisor; and, her mother, Mary Gorin Peden (1890–1972), was a school teacher. [3] She graduated from Hopkinsville High School. She was a member of the First Christian Church of Hopkinsville. [4] Her professional career started in 1944 when she went to work at radio station WHOP (AM). She became general manager of the station and owner of WNVL in Nicholasville, Kentucky. She also worked as the national sales manager for five CBS television stations. [4] National and State Leadership [ edit ] Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club [ edit ] Peden, first a member of the Hopkinsville local chapter, was elected the national president of National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club (BPW) in 1961. [4] First woman commerce commissioner 1963 [ edit ] Having served successfully as his campaign manager, Peden was appointed by Kentucky Governor Edward T. Breathitt as Commerce Commissioner in 1963. Her departmental reforms and targeted campaign to recruit businesses to Kentucky led to the journal Business Week coining her work as "Pedenblitz." [5] By the end of her four years in that position, "150,000 new jobs had been created, unemployment in Kentucky was cut in half and personal income had increased by 30 percent." [4] President Kennedy appointment to Commission on Status of Women [ edit ] In 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed Peden to the President's Commission on the Status of Women established in 1961. [6] President Johnson appointment to Kerner Commission 1967 [ edit ] Peden was the only woman on the Kerner Commission that investigated the race riots in the United States in the mid 1960s. [3] U.S. Senate campaign 1968 [ edit ] In May 1968, Peden won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate over John Y. Brown Sr. of Lexington and other candidates. That summer she gave a speech at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. [7] Peden lost the general election to Republican Marlow Cook of Louisville by a 51.4 to 47.6 percent margin. In 1968 Peden started her own company, Peden and Associates, which specialized in industrial and community development and brokerage. [1] President Carter appointment 1978 [ edit ] President Jimmy Carter appointed her in 1978 to the Executive Committee of the White House Conference on Balanced Growth and Economic Development. [1] Death and legacy [ edit ] Peden died in Lexington, Kentucky on January 8, 2006, after a long illness. [8] She is buried at Riverside Cemetery near her parents' graves in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. [9] The Phelps Dodge Company was recruited by Peden to Hopkinsville and upon the development of the first Pembroke Road Industrial Park, a street is named in her honor. In 1996, the Industrial Development Research Council, an association of corporate and real estate executives and development professionals now known as the International Development Research Council, [10] designated her "Master Professional"—the first woman with this title. [4] In 2003, the Kentucky Commission on Women named her as a Kentucky Women Remembered honoree. [11]