Capitalizing on the woman question: Organizing Oklahoma women into the socialist party in the early twentieth century

Abstract

In Oklahoma, three women, Winnie Branstetter, Kate Richards O'Hare and Caroline Lowe stand Out as strong Socialist party organizers who capitalized on the women suffrage question to gain recruits to the party and, therefore, a new voting strength with which to initiate social change in turn-of-the-century Oklahoma.