The southern elite and social change : essays in honor of Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. / edited by Randy Finley and Thomas A. DeBlack ; with a foreword by James C. Cobb.

Contents In the shadow of the revolution : Savannah's first generation of free African American elite in the new republic, 1790-1830 / Whittington B. Johnson -- "A model man of Chicot County" : Lycurgus Johnson and social change / Thomas A. DeBlack -- "I go to set the captives free" : the activism of Richard Harvey Cain, nationalist churchman and Reconstruction-era leader / Bernard E. Powers, Jr. -- "This dreadful whirlpool" of Civil War : Edward W. Gantt and the quest for distinction / Randy Finley -- James Carroll Napier (1845-1940) : from plantation to the city / Bobby L. Lovett -- Robert E. Lee Wilson and the making of a post-Civil War plantation / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Reward for party service : Emily Newell Blair and political patronage in the New Deal / Virginia Laas -- "A generous and exemplary womanhood" : Hattie Rutherford Watson and NYA Camp Bethune in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1937 / Fon Gordon -- Tufted titans : Dalton, Georgia's carpet elite / 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 / Paula C. Barnes.
Bibliography note"Publications by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.": p. [xvii]-xxi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-218).
LCCN 2002000242
ISBN1557287201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other class# HI.F 3/178-8:S 6873/2002

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