Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis/Hoosier Women at Work

Join us for the Hoosier Women at Work edit-a-thon with Indiana Historical Bureau Thursday, November 2nd at the Indiana State Library!

What: Hoosier Women at Work Edit-a-thon

When: Thursday, November 2nd from 11 am–3 pm

Where: Indiana State Library, 4th Floor, 315 W. Ohio Street Indianapolis, IN

Suggested Focus: significant Hoosier women, Indiana women's organizations, Indiana history

What to bring: You preferred editing device (personal computer, tablet) and necessary charging cables.

More information: See the IUPUI project page here: https://cds.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/wikipedia

Parking: There is metered parking available on Ohio St. and Senate Ave. There are several downtown garages in walking distance.

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To do

Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

Article	Sources	Notes
Roberta West Nicholson	[1][2][3] [4] [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]	Notable legislator and civic leader.
Amelia R. Keller	[13][14] [15][16][17][18][19][20] [21]	Notable physician and suffragist.
Kathy Sarris	[22][23] [24][25][26][27][28][29]	LGBTQ+ activist
Marjorie Kitselman	[30][31][32][33][34][35]	Aviator, reported to be the youngest pilot in the state in 1932.
Helene Knabe Brea is editing	[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]	Notable physician, scientist, health officer (cold case, murdered with one of her medical instruments in 1911).
Draft:Elizabeth Fletcher Allen. Olivia is working on creating this article!	[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]	Attorney, civil rights activist, first Black woman to be an attorney in Indiana.
Sarah Parke Morrison	[54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59]	First woman to be a student & then a professor at Indiana University.
Eleanor P. Barker	[60] [61] [62]	Attorney, suffragist, head of Indiana's Congressional Union/Woman’s Party.
Draft:Adele Storck this is being edited slowly	[63] [64] [65]	First woman admitted to the Indianapolis Bar; created a women-owned law firm.
Jessie Levy	[66] [67] [68] [69] [70]	One of the attorneys that defended the Dillinger Gang.
Hannah Graham (physician) - Jill building in sandbox	[71] [72][73]	Physician, suffragist, leader of the Equal Suffrage Association in Indiana.
Lucinda Burbank Morton	[74] [75] [76] [77]	Abolitionist, established the U.S. Sanitary Commission in Indiana.
Blanche McNeeley Wean	[78] [79] [80] [81]	First woman to enroll in the IU School of Business.
Eugenie Nicholson	[82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87][88][89]	Suffragist; vice president of the Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana.
Edna Stillwell	[90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98]	Comedian and screenwriter. Key writer for Red Skelton.
Sarah Stockton	[99][100][101]	Physician at Central State Hospital; suffragist.
Mary Ellen Cable	[102] [103] [104] [105] [106]	IPS teacher and principal, educator, civic leader, NAACP leader. Established the first "fresh air" classroom for Black students in Indianapolis.
Kate Debs	[107] [108] [109] [110][111] [112]	Socialist thinker, suffragist in Terre Haute.
Draft:Sarah Wolf Goodman	[113][114] [115] [116] [117][118]	Civic leader, Jewish community leader, philanthropist. First woman to serve as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis.
Mary Donovan Hapgood	[119][120] [121] [122][123] OA version	Political leader, labor leader, founder of Indiana Civil Liberties Union.
Alfaretta Hart - Lindsey B Editing	[124][125][126] [127]	Social reformer, first policewoman of Muncie, opposed prohibition.
Madge Rutherford Minton	[128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135]	Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), biologist and herpetologist. Some of her biography is recounted on Sherman A. Minton.
Mary Rigg - editing, Curious-Researcher219	[136] [137] [138] [139]	Social worker for immigrant neighborhoods, namesake for Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center.
Laurel C. Thayer	[140][141] [142] [143]	Suffragist, reformer, probation officer.
Maria Carmen Velasquez	[144][145][146][147][148]	Advocate for migrant workers; contributed to the founding of AMOS, subject of a mural in Marion, Indiana.
Carolyn Barnes	[149][150][151][152][153][154][155]	AKA Carrie Barnes Ross. First president of Branch No. 7, Equal Suffrage Association, Indy's Black ESA Branch.
Rachel Peden	[156]not reliable [157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164]	Author from rural Indiana.
Hannah Toliver	[165][166][167][168][169]	Free Black woman who aided escaping enslaved people.
Evangeline Harris	[170][171][172] [173][174] [175]	Educator, author, and vocalist--created primary reader for Black children.
Roselyn Richardson	[176][177][178][179][180][181]	Equal rights activist, worked to desegregate IPS and founded the Friends of Indianapolis Urban League.
Sarah M. Wilmer	[182][183] [184] [185] [186]	Entertainer and WWI nurse.
Indiana Crossdresser Society, IXE	[187][188] [189]	Social and activist organization for transgender women and gender non-conforming people.
Marie Stuart Edwards	[190][191][192] [193] [194] [195] [196] [197] [198]	Suffragist and social reformer. President of the Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana.
Mindwell Crampton Wilson	[199] [200] [201][202]	Journalist, columnist, newspaper owner.
Gertrude Amelia Mahorney	[203] [204] [205]	first Black Butler grad, translator, and educator
Massaw or Mas-saw	[206] [207] [208] [209] [210]	Potawatomi leader
Susannah Clark	[211] [212] [213] [214]	Civil War nurse
Ella Kehrer	[215][216][217]	humanitarian; founder of hospital
Grace Urbahns finished editing	[218] [219] [220] [221]	Treasurer of the State of Indiana 1926-1931; Republican Party organizer
Emma Christy Baker	[222][223]	first woman Indianapolis police officer; juvenile court officer
Mae Dickinson	[224][225][226]	state legislator; legislation to protect children
Mary Jancosek Bercik	[227][228]	Mayor of Whiting; first Indiana women to be mayor
Z. Mae Jimison	[229][230][231][232][233] [234]	Judge; attorney; first Black woman to win major party primary (Indianapolis mayoral race)
Sara Messing Stern-Sheri R.	[235] [236] [237] [238]	Suffragist; National Council of Jewish Women
Phyllis Fleming	[239][240][241]	Physicist, physics educator
Ada Harris	[242]	Civic leader, educator, and entrepreneur
Maddie Coney	[243]	Civic leader, educator, and municipal beautification leader; related image- [244]
Frances Berry Coston	[245]	Civic leader, journalist for the Indianapolis News
Jane Dabney Shackelford	[246][247]	Author, educator; wikidata page
Martha Dicks Stevens	[248][249]	civil engineer, Purdue's 'first' female engineer
Mary Ellen Bussel Westerfield	[250][251]	spiritualist, founder of Camp Chesterfield
Hello Girls	[252][253][254][255]	Indiana's WWI switchboard operators includes: Helen Bixby, Bertha A. Carrel, Martha L. Carrel, Elizabeth Marion Shovar

To Improve

Article	Sources	Notes
Helen Corey	[256], [257] [258][259][260]	Syrian-American cookbook author, political and civic leader; article needs photo of Corey. Create an infobox.
Esther Griffin White	[261][262]	writer, suffragist; needs photo; create an infobox; add a page description.
Flossie Bailey	[263]	civil rights and anti-lynching activist; needs photo. Strong article, widely covered person ... look for additional sources.
Vivian Carter	[264]	record producer and DJ; needs photo
Eliza George	[265]	Civil War nurse; needs photo
Mary Bidwell Breed	[266]	IU Dean of women and chemistry professor; needs photo
Marie Goth	[267][268][269]	Brown County artist, portraitist; needs photo and images of paintings
Ada Walter Shulz	[270][271]	Brown County artist; needs photo and images of paintings
Mary Hamilton Swindler	[272][273]	archaeologist, art scholar; page needs more on time in Indiana
Merze Tate	[274][275]	Scholar of diplomacy, professor; page needs more on time in Indiana
Emma Barrett Molloy	[276]	women's rights and temperance leader, journalist; needs image
Polly Strong	[277][278]	enslaved woman successfully sued for freedom; add historical marker. Strong article. Could add in clipping from the legal decision. See 1 or 2.
Mary Bateman Clark	[279][280][281][282][283]	indentured woman who successfully sued for freedom; add historical marker
Mary Holloway Wilhite	[284][285]	physician, suffragists; add historical marker and photo of. Strong article.
Earline S. Rogers	[286][287][288][289][290]	Indiana State Senator; Indiana State Representative; member of Indiana Black Legislative Caucus. Stub. Expand by describing her accomplishments.
Emily Kimbrough	[291][292]	Best-selling novelist, fashion writer, magazine editor. Add citation for details about her death.
Phyllis Pond	[293][294][295][296]	Indiana State Representative; education legislation. Expand by describing her accomplishments.
Bertita Carla Camille Leonarz de Harding	[297][298][299]	Author. Entry uses only one source. Look for others and supplement as needed.
Mary F. Thomas	[300][301][302][303]	Physician, early suffrage leader. Add image. Add information about historical marker.
Linton, Indiana Lindsey B.	[304][305]	Include the Linton Telephone Operators Strike in the history section.
Wilma Gibbs Moore	[306][307]	Historian, empowering educator and mentor, archivist, Black history leader
Mari Evans	[308]	poet, dramaturg, musician, Black Arts Movement; needs photo

Help us find reliable, secondary sources

Article	Sources	Notes
Sadie Hider	[309]	Indianapolis community leader of Syrian origin
Julia David	[310]	Indianapolis community leader of Syrian origin
Ann Zarick	[311][312]	Indianapolis community leader of Syrian origin
Harriet Noble (suffragist)	[313]	Suffragist. Treasurer for the Women's School League; field secretary for the Women's Franchise League of Indiana.

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