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Mississippi Women - Their Histories, Their Lives (Paperback, Volume 1 ed.)
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Mississippi Women - Their Histories, Their Lives (Paperback, Volume 1 ed.)
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Celebrating the achievements of Mississippi women. This collection
of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi
Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the
state's women their due place in its written record. The women
whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicite
Girodeau of old Natchez, who was both a person of color and a
slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who "mothered" the civil rights
movement in the Mississippi Delta. Some of the women are well
known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded
into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they
deserve. Readers may already know such figures as writer and
photographer Eudora Welty, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer,
and poet and educator Margaret Walker Alexander. Others are
probably less familiar: the microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen, the
black businesswoman and civic leader Sadye Wier, the flapper
feminist Minnie Brewer, or the jurist Burnita Shelton Matthews. All
the featured women, whether suffrage pioneers, champions for higher
education for women, or luminaries in art and literature, shared
similar experiences in their struggles for success. From Winnie
Davis, daughter of the Confederacy's president, to Hazel Brannon
Smith, the journalist and antilynching crusader, they had in common
the pains and privileges that were part of womanhood in their
times. As multifaceted as the state they helped to build, the women
portrayed in this engaging volume will interest and inspire
Mississippians of all ages. Scholars will find here a valuable
resource that adds nuance and texture to southern and women's
history.
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