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9780820329499

Tennessee Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780820329499

  • ISBN10:

    0820329495

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-02-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
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Summary

Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times. As rich, diverse, and wide-ranging as the topography of the state, this book will interest scholars, general readers, and students of southern history, women's history, and Tennessee history.Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times shifts the historical lens from the more traditional view of men's roles to place women and their experiences at center stage in the historical drama. The eighteen biographical essays, written by leading historians of women, illuminate the lives of familiar figures like reformer Frances Wright, blueswoman Alberta Hunter, and the Grand Ole Opry's Minnie Pearl (Sarah Colley Cannon) and less-well-known characters like the Cherokee Beloved Woman Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward), antebellum free black woman Milly Swan Price, and environmentalist Doris Bradshaw.Told against the backdrop of their times, these are the life stories of women who shaped Tennessee's history from the eighteenth-century challenges of western expansion through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century struggles against racial and gender oppression to the twenty-first-century battles with community degradation. Taken as a whole, this collection of women's stories illuminates previously unrevealed historical dimensions that give readers a greater understanding of Tennessee's place within environmental and human rights movements and its role as a generator of phenomenal cultural life.

Author Biography

Sarah Wilkerson Freeman is an associate professor of history at Arkansas State University. She is a contributor to Southern Women at the Millennium and Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives and numerous journals. Beverly Greene Bond is an associate professor of history and director of African and African American Studies at the University of Memphis. She is the coauthor of Memphis in Black and White and Images of America: Beale Street.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward): Diplomatic Motherp. 1
Fanny Wright: Battle against Slaveryp. 23
Milly Swan Price: Freedom, Kinship, and Propertyp. 44
Mary Church Terrell: Revisiting the Politics of Race, Class, and Genderp. 68
Alberta Hunter: "She Had the World in a Jug, with the Stopper in Her Hand"p. 93
Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie: Wing Walker, Parachute Jumper, Air Racerp. 119
Sue Shelton White: Lady Warriorp. 140
Charl Ormond Williams: Feminist Politics and Education for Equalityp. 164
Lucille Thornburgh: "I Had to Be Right Pushy"p. 191
Martha Ragland: The Evolution of a Political Feministp. 214
Wilma Dykeman: The Hearth and the Mapp. 243
Sarah Colley Cannon (Minnie Pearl): Gossiping about Grinder's Switch-The Grand Ole Opry and the Modernization of Tennesseep. 261
Diane Judith Nash: A Mission for Equality, Justice, and Social Changep. 281
Wilma Rudolph: Running for Freedomp. 305
Jo Walker-Meador: The Country Music Associationp. 333
Bettye Berger: Transforming the Mainstreamp. 359
Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg: Feminist and Race Womanp. 381
Doris Bradshaw: Battling Environmental Racismp. 403
Selected Bibliographyp. 425
List of Contributorsp. 433
Indexp. 437
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