The Girl Who Dared to Defy

Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver

2021 INDIES Winner
Bronze, Women's Studies (Adult Nonfiction)
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In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the status quo for “girls,” as well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this compelling biography is the first to chronicle her defiant efforts—and devastating misfortunes—as a leader of the so-called housemaid rebellion.