The Tireless Dr. Ripley

Discover the work of Dr. Martha Ripley (1843-1912), a determined early advocate for women’s health and social equality who was once denounced on the floor of the Minnesota State Senate, but now has a plaque in her honor at the Capitol. One of the state’s first female physicians and a passionate suffragist, Dr. Ripley established Maternity Hospital of Minneapolis in 1886 and pioneered a new model for the medical profession’s treatment of single mothers. Join Ripley scholar and Regions Hospital medical librarian Mary Wittenbreer as she examines Ripley’s tireless campaign to change the way Minnesotans viewed women. This program is being held in connection with “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.”