Utah Women Working for Better Days!

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• Esther Landa, Women’s Rights Activist and President of the National Council of Jewish Women
• Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, First Female State Senator and Founder of the Utah State Board of Health
• Ellen “Mama” Selu, Community Leader and Host of KRCL’s “Voice of Polynesia” Radio Show
• Ivy Baker Priest, Treasurer of the United States and Organizer of Republican Women
• Geneal Anderson, Chairperson of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and Anti-Nuclear War Activist
• Alberta Henry, Education Leader and Champion for Racial Equality
• Olene Walker, Utah’s First Female Lieutenant Governor and Only Female Governor
• Jennie Froiseth, Women’s Club Founder and Anti-Polygamist Leader
• Edith Melendez, Civil Rights Leader Who Fought Against Police Brutality
• Maud May Babcock, Utah’s First Lady of Theater
• Elizabeth Taylor, Newspaperwoman and President of the Western Federation of Colored Women
• Barbara Toomer, Powerhouse in the Disability Rights Community Who Was Jailed 35 Times
• Emmeline B. Wells, Utah’s Leading Suffragist and Editor of the Woman’s Exponent
• Mignon Barker Richmond, Human Rights Activist Who Established Utah’s School Lunch Program
• Reva Beck Bosone, Utah’s First Female Judge and First U.S. Congresswoman
• Alice Kasai, Advocate for Japanese Americans’ Rights and International Peace
• Mae Timbimboo Parry, Master Storyteller and Matriarch of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
• Seraph Young Ford, First Woman in the U.S. to Vote Under an Equal Suffrage Law
• Network Magazine (1980)
  Launched in the late 1970s, Network Magazine aimed to "help Utah's working women understand and use 'the system' to which we are newly committed but in which we are too often strangers and often alone." (April 1978)
• Choosing the President. League of Women Voters (1972)
  Booklet describes the political process wherein a president is elected to office, including the electoral college, political parties, and national party conventions.
• Choosing the President. League of Women Voters (1967-1968)
  Booklet describes the political process wherein a president is elected to office, including the electoral college, political parties, and national party conventions.
• Voters Service Handbook (1968)
  Link to full PDF
• "Voting is People Power." League of Women Voters of Utah (1962)
  Booklet designed to guide members of the League of Women Voters through the process of creating a voter registration drive.
• “Challenges of the Future for Utah’s Water Policies." League of Women Voters of Utah (1980)
  This booklet announced the League of Women Voters of Utah first statewide initiative on water since the late 1960s, a two year study to describe water resource management and issues of pollution, water quality, and conservation.
• “What Will Utah Be Like in the Year 2000?” League of Women Voters of Utah (September 1986)
  The Salt Lake Voter was a newsletter created by the League of Women Voters of Utah announcing events and issue updates, including those related to education, social services, and the environment. The title page refers to the LWVU participation in Project 2000, a series of documentaries by KUTV about growth issues in Utah.