Georgia Women : Their Lives and Times. Volume 2 /

James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chirhart, Ann Short (Editor ), Clark, Kathleen Ann (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Colección:Southern women (Athens, Ga.)
Temas:
Women > Georgia > Biography.
Women > Georgia > History.
Femmes > Géorgie (État) > Biographies.
Femmes > Géorgie (État) > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Women
Georgia > Biography.
Géorgie (État) > Biographies.
Georgia
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Lugenia Burns Hope (1871-1947): Fulfilling a Sacred Purpose; Vara A. Majette (1875-1974): "The Small Voice of a Dissenter" in the Segregated South; Lucy May Stanton (1876-1931): New Forms and Ideas; Catherine Evans Whitener (1881-1964): The Creation of North Georgia's Tufted Textile Industry; Viola Ross Napier (1881-1962): The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Women's Equality; Mary Hambidge (1885-1973): A Vision of Beauty, Symmetry, and Order; Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939): "Hear Me Talkin' to You"; Lillian Smith (1887-1966): Humanist.
  • Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949): "What Living in the South Means"Frances Freeborn Pauley (1905-2003): Working for Justice in Twentieth-Century Georgia; Kathryn Dunaway (1906-1980): Grassroots Conservatism and the STOP ERA Campaign; Hazel Jane Raines (1916-1956): Georgia's First Woman Pilot and her "Band of Sisters" during World War II; Carson McCullers (1917-1967): "The Brutal Humiliation of Human Dignity" in the South; Mabel Murphy Smythe (1918-2006): Black Women and Internationalism; Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964): A Prophet for Her Times.
  • Coretta Scott King (1927-2006): Legacy to Civil RightsRosalynn Carter (1927- ): The President's Partner; Alice Tallulah-Kate Walker (1944- ): On All Fronts; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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