Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their LivesMartha H. Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne, Marjorie Julian Spruill University of Georgia Press, 2003 - 324 pàgines This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their deserved place in its written record. The women whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicité Girodeau of old Natchez, who was both a person of color and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who "mothered" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they deserve. Readers may already know such figures as writer and photographer Eudora Welty, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, and poet and educator Margaret Walker Alexander. Others are probably less familiar: the microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen, the black businesswoman and civic leader Sadye Wier, the flapper feminist Minnie Brewer, or the jurist Burnita Shelton Matthews. All the featured women, whether suffrage pioneers, champions for higher education for women, or luminaries in art and literature, shared similar experiences in their struggles for success. From Winnie Davis, daughter of the Confederacy's president, to Hazel Brannon Smith, a journalist and antilynching crusader, they had in common the pains and privileges that were part of womanhood in their times. As multifaceted as the state they helped to build, the women portrayed in this engaging volume will interest and inspire Mississippians of all ages. Scholars will find here a valuable resource that adds nuance and texture to southern and women's history. |
Continguts
PART ONE CONFRONTING CHALLENGES | 1 |
Winnie Davis 18641898 | 21 |
Nellie Nugent Somerville 18631952 | 39 |
Belle Kearney 18631939 | 59 |
Feminist Education in Mississippi | 72 |
BECOMING PROFESSIONALS | 95 |
Mentor of Southern Womens Literature | 113 |
Elizabeth Lee Hazen 18851975 | 131 |
Eudora Welty 19092001 | 181 |
EXTENDING RIGHTS | 197 |
Hazel Brannon Smith 19141994 | 220 |
Margaret Walker Alexander 19151998 | 235 |
Fannie Lou Hamer 19171977 | 249 |
Mae Bertha Carter 19231999 | 268 |
Mothering the Movement | 281 |
For Further Research | 299 |
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