Stepping out of the shadows : Alabama women, 1819-1990 / edited by Mary Martha Thomas.

Other author Thomas, Mary Martha, 1927-
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994.
Descriptionvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Stewards of their culture : Southern women novelists as social critics / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Plantation mistress : a perspective on Antebellum Alabama / Ann Williams Boucher -- White and black female missionaries to former slaves during reconstruction / Harriet E. Amos Doss -- Amelia Gayle Gorgas : a Victorian mother / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- White and black Alabama women during the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 / Mary Martha Thomas -- Adella Hunt Logan and the Tuskegee Woman's Club building a foundation for suffrage / Adele Logan Alexander -- From parsonage to hospital : Louise Branscomb becomes a doctor / Norma Taylor Mitchell -- Loula Dunn : Alabama pioneer in public welfare administration / Martha H. Swain -- Stepping out of the shadows into politics : women in the Alabama legislature, 1922-1990 / Joanne Varner Hawks -- "Alive to the cause of justice" : Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery bus boycott / Sheryl Spradling Summe
General noteCollection of essays derived from a conference held in Birmingham, Mar. 1990, by the Alabama Women's History Forum.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-230 and index.
LCCN 94012230
ISBN0817307567 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1438.A2 S75 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold