Michael Helquist
Michael Helquist is a historian, writer, and journalist. His biography of Portland physician, political activist, and lesbian feminist Marie Equi – Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions was named a 2016 Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. Helquist received the 2016 Joel Palmer Award from the Oregon Historical Society for his article “Criminal Operations’: The First Fifty Years of Abortion Prosecutions in Portland, 1875-1925” published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly.
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Criminal Syndicalism Law of Oregon
Oregonians were light-headed from days of celebrating the end of World War I in November 1918. They filled Portland’s downtown streets—and Main Streets across the state—with rousing cheers that the carnage of the war had ended. Lurking in the war’s wake, however, was lingering anxiety about threats from within …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Marie Equi (1872-1952)
Dr. Marie Equi was a fiercely independent Oregon physician who was engaged in the political turmoil and social change of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was a fearless advocate for woman's suffrage, reproductive rights, labor rights, and free speech, and her raucous protests against imperialism and war …
Oregon Encyclopedia
