Grace Wetzel is an associate professor of English and the First-Year Course Coordinator at Saint Joseph’s University. Her works include essays in JAEPL, Composition Studies, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly and in the edited collection The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2013.

• Foreword by Shari StenbergPrefaceAcknowledgementsNewspaper AbbreviationsIntroduction1.Winifred Black’s “Little Jim” Campaign: Children’s Extracurricular Writing for Social Action2.Gertrude Bustill Mossell’s “Helpful Sisterhood”:Racial Uplift, Raising Girls, and Reader-Centered Pedagogy3. Susette La Flesche’s Relational Journalism and Literacy Teaching: Collaborative Practices of SurvivanceConclusion—Public Memory and the Pan-ExtracurriculumWorks Cited

“Bringing together a group of diverse women journalists, Grace Wetzel curates an engaging narrative of community-building, activist journalism that, importantly, pulls these rhetorical figures out of historical record and situates them within a longer legacy of public memory."—Alicia Brazeau, author,Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910"This extraordinary book is not only an engaging work of recovery, but an insightful combination of feminist historiography and public memory that establishes the significance of these women to the field and considers the politics of race and gender in the ways they have been remembered."—Shevaun E. Watson, editor of Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America"Wetzel documents a critical early period of women journalists' influence on American newspaper and media, masterfully weaving rhetorical and pedagogical analysis with the contributions of three trend-setting newspaperwomen and tracing how they used their platform to educate and encourage social action and change. This book serves as an excellent model on how to write and interpret history based on primary text documents."—Cristina D. RamÍrez, author of Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942

Grace Wetzel is an associate professor of English and the First-Year Course Coordinator at Saint Joseph’s University. Her works include essays in JAEPL, Composition Studies, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly and in the edited collection The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2013.

• Foreword by Shari StenbergPrefaceAcknowledgementsNewspaper AbbreviationsIntroduction1.Winifred Black’s “Little Jim” Campaign: Children’s Extracurricular Writing for Social Action2.Gertrude Bustill Mossell’s “Helpful Sisterhood”:Racial Uplift, Raising Girls, and Reader-Centered Pedagogy3. Susette La Flesche’s Relational Journalism and Literacy Teaching: Collaborative Practices of SurvivanceConclusion—Public Memory and the Pan-ExtracurriculumWorks Cited

“Bringing together a group of diverse women journalists, Grace Wetzel curates an engaging narrative of community-building, activist journalism that, importantly, pulls these rhetorical figures out of historical record and situates them within a longer legacy of public memory."—Alicia Brazeau, author,Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910"This extraordinary book is not only an engaging work of recovery, but an insightful combination of feminist historiography and public memory that establishes the significance of these women to the field and considers the politics of race and gender in the ways they have been remembered."—Shevaun E. Watson, editor of Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America"Wetzel documents a critical early period of women journalists' influence on American newspaper and media, masterfully weaving rhetorical and pedagogical analysis with the contributions of three trend-setting newspaperwomen and tracing how they used their platform to educate and encourage social action and change. This book serves as an excellent model on how to write and interpret history based on primary text documents."—Cristina D. RamÍrez, author of Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942

Grace Wetzel is an associate professor of English and the First-Year Course Coordinator at Saint Joseph’s University. Her works include essays in JAEPL, Composition Studies, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly and in the edited collection The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2013.

• Foreword by Shari StenbergPrefaceAcknowledgementsNewspaper AbbreviationsIntroduction1.Winifred Black’s “Little Jim” Campaign: Children’s Extracurricular Writing for Social Action2.Gertrude Bustill Mossell’s “Helpful Sisterhood”:Racial Uplift, Raising Girls, and Reader-Centered Pedagogy3. Susette La Flesche’s Relational Journalism and Literacy Teaching: Collaborative Practices of SurvivanceConclusion—Public Memory and the Pan-ExtracurriculumWorks Cited

“Bringing together a group of diverse women journalists, Grace Wetzel curates an engaging narrative of community-building, activist journalism that, importantly, pulls these rhetorical figures out of historical record and situates them within a longer legacy of public memory."—Alicia Brazeau, author,Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910"This extraordinary book is not only an engaging work of recovery, but an insightful combination of feminist historiography and public memory that establishes the significance of these women to the field and considers the politics of race and gender in the ways they have been remembered."—Shevaun E. Watson, editor of Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America"Wetzel documents a critical early period of women journalists' influence on American newspaper and media, masterfully weaving rhetorical and pedagogical analysis with the contributions of three trend-setting newspaperwomen and tracing how they used their platform to educate and encourage social action and change. This book serves as an excellent model on how to write and interpret history based on primary text documents."—Cristina D. RamÍrez, author of Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942