Stepping Out of the Shadows

by Thomas, Mary Martha

• ISBN13: 9780817307561
• ISBN10: 0817307567
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

The history of Alabama has been told, but most often in terms of white men and their politics and economics. Now a more complex story of the state is emerging from the shadows of history in a new book that investigates the place of women from the perspective of race, class, and gender. The writers reexamine the roles of both black and white women as missionaries during Reconstruction, as reformers and suffrage leaders in the Progressive era, and as members of the state legislature in the 20th century.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Stewards of Their Culture Southern Women Novelists as Social Critics	p. 11
The Plantation Mistress A Perspective on Antebellum Alabama	p. 28
White and Black Female Missionaries to Former Slaves During Reconstruction	p. 43
Amelia Gayle Gorgas A VIctorian Mother	p. 57
White and Black Alabama Women During the Progressive Era, 1890-1820	p. 75
Adella Hunt Logan and the Tuskegee Woman's Club Building A Foundation for Suffrage	p. 96
From Parsonage to Hospital Louise Branscomb Becomes A Doctor	p. 114
Loula Dunn Alabama Pioneer in Public Welfare Administration	p. 132
Stepping Out of the Shadows into Politics Women in the Alabama Legislature, 1922-1990	p. 154
"Alive to the Cause of Justice" Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott	p. 176
Notes	p. 191
Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 233
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