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Kate Richards O’Hare

Full Name: Carrie Kathleen "Kate" Richards O'Hare Cunningham

Born: March 26, 1876

Died: January 11, 1948 (age 71)

Missouri Hometowns: Kansas City, St. Louis

Regions of Missouri: Kansas City, St. Louis

Categories: Leaders and Activists, Women, Writers

Introduction

Kate Richards O’Hare was an activist, reformer, and Socialist. She sought to improve the lives of the working class through advocacy and reform. After serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary, O’Hare became an outspoken critic of the American prison system, calling for better conditions for inmates.

Early Years and Education

Carrie Kathleen “Kate” Richards was born to Andrew and Lucy Sullivan Richards on March 26, 1876, in Ottawa County, Kansas. She was the couple’s first daughter and fourth child. They were a family of farmers.

In 1887 an economic recession followed by a severe drought led the Richards family to sell their Kansas homestead and relocate to Kansas City, Missouri.  At the age of eleven, Kate moved from the wide-open prairie to t

Mary-Kate O'Hare

Newark Museum

September–December 2011

Mary-Kate O’Hare is Associate Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum. She has organized several exhibitions for the museum, including Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s (2010); At the Movies: Edward Hopper’s “The Sheridan Theatre” (2007); and Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase and Sargent (co-curator, 2006). She is an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University where she earned a MA and PhD in art history. While at the Clark she will continue work on a forthcoming interdisciplinary exhibition that will explore the visual and popular arts that fueled the development of Brazilian modernism in the 1950s.

Kate Richards O'Hare

American politician (1876 – 1948)

Carrie Katherine "Kate" Richards O'Hare (March 26, 1876 – January 10, 1948) was an American Socialist Party activist, editor, and orator best known for her controversial imprisonment during World War I.

Biography

Early years

Carrie Katherine Richards was born March 26, 1876, in Ottawa County, Kansas. Her father, Andrew Richards (c. 1846–1916), was the son of slaveowners, but had come to hate the institution, enlisting as a bugler and drummer boy in the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.[1] Following the conclusion of the war he had married his childhood sweetheart and moved to the western Kansas frontier, where he and his wife Lucy brought up Kate and her four siblings, raising the children as socialists from an early age.[1]

O'Hare attended Pawnee City Academy in Pawnee City, Nebraska graduating in 1894. O'Hare briefly worked as a teacher in Nebraska before becoming a secretary for, and later part owner of, her father's machinist shop in Kansas City

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