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Flora Dodge La Follette (September 10, 1882 – February 17, 1970), known as Fola La Follette, was an American actress and teacher turned women's suffrage and labor activist and editor/author from Madison, Wisconsin. At the time of her death in 1970, The New York Times quoted her on women's suffrage: "A good husband is not a ...
Flora Dodge La Follette (September 10, 1882 – February 17, 1970), known as Fola La Follette, was an American actress and teacher turned women's suffrage and labor activist and editor/author from Madison, Wisconsin.
Fola La Follette - Women's suffrage and labor activist, actress and author; born Flora Dodge La Follette on September 10, 1882 in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the first child of lawyer and women's suffrage leader Belle Case La Follette and progressive politician Robert La Follette.
18 de feb. de 1970 · Fola La Follette, a suffrage leader, actress and daughter of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, died of pneumonia yesterday at a hospital in Arlington, Va. She was 87 years...
American actress and women's rights activist. Name variations: LaFollette. Born in 1882; died Feb 17, 1970, in Arlington, Virginia; dau. of Robert M. La Follette (US senator) and Belle Case La Follette (1859–1931, social reformer); m. George Middleton (playwright, died).
La Follette's daughter, Fola La Follette, was a prominent suffragette and labor activist and was married to the playwright George Middleton. A grandson, Bronson La Follette, served several terms as the Attorney General of Wisconsin and was the 1968 Democratic gubernatorial nominee.
27 de abr. de 2020 · Inspired Women. •. Women who are changing our world. 4. Changemaker, Flora Dodge. Photograph shows suffrage and labor activist Flora Dodge "Fola" La Follette (1882-1970), social reformer and missionary Rose Livingston, and a young striker during a garment strike in New York City in 1913.
