Foreword | p. xi |
Preface | p. xv |
Confronting Challenges | p. 1 |
Felicite Girodeau (1791-1860): Racial and Religious Identity in Antebellum Natchez | p. 4 |
Winnie Davis (1864-1898): The Challenges of Daughterhood | p. 21 |
Nellie Nugent Somerville (1863-1952): Mississippi Reformer, Suffragist, and Politician | p. 39 |
Belle Kearney (1863-1939): Mississippi Gentlewoman and Slaveholder's Daughter | p. 59 |
Pauline Van de Graaf Orr (1861-1955): Feminist Education in Mississippi | p. 72 |
Becoming Professionals | p. 95 |
Kate Freeman Clark (1875-1957): An Artist and a Lady | p. 98 |
Blanche Colton Williams (1879-1944): Mentor of Southern Women's Literature | p. 113 |
Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885-1975): A Mississippi Microbiologist's Quest for a Cure | p. 131 |
Burnita Shelton Matthews (1894-1988): The Struggle for Women's Rights | p. 144 |
Minnie Brewer (1898-1978): The Life and Times of a Flapper Feminist | p. 160 |
Eudora Welty (1909-2001): En Route to A Curtain of Green | p. 181 |
Extending Rights | p. 197 |
Sadye Wier (1905-1995): A Life of Independence and Service | p. 200 |
Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994): Journalist under Siege | p. 220 |
Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998): Voicing Form | p. 235 |
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977): A New Voice in American Democracy | p. 249 |
Mae Bertha Carter (1923-1999) School Desegregation in a Delta Town | p. 268 |
Vera Mae Pigee (1925-): Mothering the Movement | p. 281 |
For Further Research | p. 299 |
List of Contributors | p. 307 |
Index | p. 311 |
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