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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817455003321

Titolo

North Carolina women Their lives and times . Volume 2 / / edited by Michele Gillespie and Sally G. McMillen ; contributors, Jane Becker [and sixteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia ; ; London, [England] : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8203-4002-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Collana

Southern Women: Their Lives and Times

Disciplina

920.7209756

Soggetti

Women - North Carolina

Women - North Carolina - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Gertrude Weil: Forever Young""; ""Olive Dame Campbell: Among the Folk: Education, Experimentation, and Rural Life""; ""Charlotte Hawkins Brown: Living the Correct Way""; ""Lucy Morgan: The Penland School of Handicrafts and the Southern Appalachian Craft Revival""; ""The Delany Sisters: “We Are North Carolinians�""; ""Nell Battle Lewis: The Political Journey of a Liberal White Supremacist""; ""Gladys Avery Tillett: White Gloved and Iron Willed""; ""Ella May Wiggins: Mill Mother “Just A�waiting for a Strike�""

""Guion Griffis Johnson: “I Got It with the Mother�s Milk�""""North Carolina�s Farm Women: Plowing around Obstacles""; ""Ellen Black Winston: Social Science for Social Welfare""; ""Ella Josephine Baker: “I Never Worked for an Organization but for a Cause�""; ""Susie Marshall Sharp: First Lady of the Law""; ""Margaret Jarman Hagood: “To Do Justice to It Either in Observing or Recording�""; ""Pauli Murray: “Gifts of the Holy Spirit to Women I Have Known�""; ""Crystal Lee Sutton: “I Was Doing Something I Didn�t Even Think I Could Do�""

""North Carolina Women Writers: Finding Voice in a Distinguished Literary Place""""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E"";



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Sommario/riassunto

By the twentieth century, North Carolina's progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. In 1902, Daisy Denson became the first woman to head the state's welfare board, and from that position she addressed a number of issues, including child labor and prison reform. Gertrude Weil fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the amendment was ratified in 1920. Gladys Avery Tillett, an arde