page_title: Annie Le Porte Diggs
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Annie Le Porte Diggs / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: "The Story of Jerry Simpson", by Annie Le Porte Diggs
context_page_description: Annie Le Porte Diggs was a Canadian-born American activist, journalist, author, and librarian.
  Diggs was the chairman of the delegation from Washington, D.C. for the National People's Party Convention, in Omaha, in 1892. It was the first time a woman ever led a delegation at a national political convention. She was a speaker for the People's Party in nearly every state and territory. She served as state librarian of Kansas, 1898–1902. A writer, Diggs served as the associate editor of The Advocate, Topeka, Kansas, and was the author of Little Brown Brothers and the Story of Jerry Simpson. Diggs died in 1916 in Michigan.
caption: The Story of Jerry Simpson
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