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KGMC explores careers of female political pioneers
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By BARBARA GOLDMAN, Staff Writer
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In advance of the upcoming election, Kentucky Humanities speaker Dr. Donna Elkins will examine the careers of three female political pioneers Sunday at the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center.
The free talk will begin at 2 p.m., and will discuss women who ran for the United States Presidency as long ago as 1872.
"These women were also running before they had the right to vote," said Elkins.
Elkins, a native of Lewis County, said "It's a very timely topic. This year with Clinton and now Palin, I'm always interested to see how the media responds to female candidates. Lots of people don't even know they're not the first women to run."
Elkins will speak about Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for the U.S. Presidency in 1872, Belva Lockwood, who ran for the Presidency in 1884 and 1888 as well as Laura Clay of Kentucky, the first woman to receive a vote for the presidential nomination in 1920.
Wills said she started her research with a book by Erika Falk, Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns.
"Much of the work I did researching was on-line. Many of the universities now house a lot of documents on-line," said Elkins. Some of that on-line research included published documents, biographies written by opponents, and information from state government sites. She utilized information housed by Web sites at Harvard and Stanford universities.
Elkins worked as the coordinator of the Institutional Research and Nontraditional Learning at Maysville Community and Technical College from 1995-1998. In 1990, she was the health and education reporter for The Ledger Independent. Today, she is an associate professor and department head of communications at Jefferson Community and Technical College, Southwest Campus. She lives in Louisville.
The program was funded in part by the Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. and the Hayswood Foundation.
Contact Barbara Goldman at barbara.goldman@lee.net or by calling 606-564-9091, ext. 274.
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