The Southern Elite and Social Change

by Finley, Randy; Deblack, Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9781557287205
• ISBN10: 1557287201
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
James C. Cobb
Introduction	ix
Randy Finley
Thomas A. DeBlack
Publications	xvii
Willard B. Gatewood Jr.
In the Shadow of the Revolution: Savannah's First Generation of Free African American Elite in the New Republic, 1790-1830	1	(15)
Whittington B. Johnson
``A Model Man of Chicot County'': Lycurgus Johnson and Social Change	16	(18)
Thomas A. DeBlack
``I Go To Set the Captives Free'': The Activism of Richard Harvey Cain, Nationalist Churchman and Reconstruction-Era Leader	34	(19)
Bernard E. Powers Jr.
``This Dreadful Whirlpool'' of Civil War: Edward W. Gantt and the Quest for Distinction	53	(20)
Randy Finley
James Carroll Napier (1845-1940): From Plantation to the City	73	(22)
Bobby L. Lovett
Robert E. Lee Wilson and the Making of a Post-Civil War Plantation	95	(23)
Jeannie M. Whayne
Reward for Party Service: Emily Newell Blair and Political Patronage in the New Deal	118	(15)
Virginia Laas
``A Generous and Exemplary Womanhood'': Hattie Rutherford Watson and NYA Camp Bethune in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1937	133	(10)
Fon Gordon
Tufted Titans: Dalton, Georgia's Carpet Elite	143	(21)
Thomas Deaton
Sara Alderman Murphy and the Little Rock Panel of American Women: A Prescription to Heal the Wounds of the Little Rock School Crisis	164	(13)
Paula C. Barnes
Notes	177	(42)
List of Contributors	219