"Discover some of the extraordinary women from Minnesota's past who helped shape the history of their state. Meet Martha Ripley, a doctor who was active in the suffrage movement and opened a women's hospital; Lena O. Smith, a civil rights pioneer who fought racial segretation and was the first black woman in the state's history to be admitted to the Minnesota bar, and Maude Hart Lovelace, a home economist and business executive at General Mills who was instrumental in the creation of the company's advertising icon "Betty Crocker"; and many other women who impacted the history of Minnesota"--Publisher's description.