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Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas
Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's
experiences across time and space from the state's earliest
frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this
collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates
Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women,
with a particular appreciation for how gendered issues influenced
the historical moment in which they lived. Diverse in nature,
Arkansas Women contains stories about women on the Arkansas
frontier, including the narratives of indigenous women and their
interactions with European men and of bondwomen of African descent
who were forcibly moved to Arkansas from the seaboard South to
labor on cotton plantations. There are also essays about
twentieth-century women who were agents of change in their
communities, such as Hilda Kahlert Cornish and the Arkansas birth
control movement, Adolphine Fletcher Terry's antisegregationist
social activism, and Sue Cowan Morris's Little Rock classroom
teachers' salary equalization suit. Collectively, these
inspirational essays work to acknowledge women's accomplishments
and to further discussions about their contributions to Arkansas's
rich cultural heritage.
Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas
Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's
experiences across time and space from the state's earliest
frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this
collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates
Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women,
with a particular appreciation for how gendered issues influenced
the historical moment in which they lived. Diverse in nature,
Arkansas Women contains stories about women on the Arkansas
frontier, including the narratives of indigenous women and their
interactions with European men and of bondwomen of African descent
who were forcibly moved to Arkansas from the seaboard South to
labor on cotton plantations. There are also essays about
twentieth-century women who were agents of change in their
communities, such as Hilda Kahlert Cornish and the Arkansas birth
control movement, Adolphine Fletcher Terry's antisegregationist
social activism, and Sue Cowan Morris's Little Rock classroom
teachers' salary equalization suit. Collectively, these
inspirational essays work to acknowledge women's accomplishments
and to further discussions about their contributions to Arkansas's
rich cultural heritage.
Although they were accustomed to a segregated society, many women
in South Carolina - both black and white, both individually and
collectively - worked to change their state's unequal racial status
quo. In this volume, Cherisse Jones-Branch explores the early
activism of black women in organizations including the NAACP, the
South Carolina Progressive Democratic Party, and the South Carolina
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. At the same time, she
discusses the involvement of white women in such groups as the YWCA
and Church Women United. Their agendas often conflicted and their
attempts at interracial activism were often futile, but these black
and white women had the same goal: to improve black South
Carolinians' access to political and educational institutions.
Examining the tumultuous years during and after World War II,
Jones-Branch contends that these women are the unsung heroes of
South Carolina's civil rights history. Their efforts to cross the
racial divide in South Carolina helped set the groundwork for the
broader civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural
Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds
activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language
and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In
reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones-Branch lifts many
important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely
within Arkansas’s agrarian history. The Black women activists
highlighted here include home demonstration agents employed by the
Arkansas Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service and Jeanes
Supervising Industrial Teachers, all of whom possessed an acute
understanding of the difficulties that African Americans faced in
rural spaces. Examining these activists through a historical lens,
Jones-Branch reveals how educated, middle-class Black women worked
with their less-educated rural sisters to create all-female spaces
where they confronted economic, educational, public health,
political, and theological concerns free from white regulation and
interference. Centered on the period between 1914 and 1965, Better
Living by Their Own Bootstraps brings long-overdue attention to an
important chapter in Arkansas history, spotlighting a group of
Black women activists who uplifted their communities while
subverting the formidable structures of white supremacy.
"Combines a remarkable amount of close research with a deep
understanding of the role of gender in the making of the Freedom
Struggle. This book will hold a place of honor on the growing shelf
of scholarship on the movement in South Carolina."--W. Scott Poole,
author of "Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the
Hideous and the Haunting" "Rediscovering fascinating black and
white women, Jones-Branch thoughtfully analyzes how they endeavored
to change South Carolina's racial climate."--Marcia G. Synnott,
author of "The Half-Opened Door: Discrimination and Admissions at
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970" Although they were
accustomed to a segregated society, many women in South
Carolina--both black and white, both individually and
collectively--worked to change their state's unequal racial status
quo. In this volume, Cherisse Jones-Branch explores the early
activism of black women in organizations including the NAACP, the
South Carolina Progressive Democratic Party, and the South Carolina
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. At the same time, she
discusses the involvement of white women in such groups as the YWCA
and Church Women United. Their agendas often conflicted and their
attempts at interracial activism were often futile, but these black
and white women had the same goal: to improve black South
Carolinians' access to political and educational
institutions.
Examining the tumultuous years during and after World War II,
Jones-Branch contends that these women are the unsung heroes of
South Carolina's civil rights history. Their efforts to cross the
racial divide in South Carolina helped set the groundwork for the
broader civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
The first major study to consider Black women's activism in rural
Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds
activists' quest to improve Black communities through language and
foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In
reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones-Branch lifts many
important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely
within Arkansas's agrarian history. The Black women activists
highlighted here include home demonstration agents employed by the
Arkansas Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service and Jeanes
Supervising Industrial Teachers, all of whom possessed an acute
understanding of the difficulties that African Americans faced in
rural spaces. Examining these activists through a historical lens,
Jones-Branch reveals how educated, middle-class Black women worked
with their less-educated rural sisters to create all-female spaces
where they confronted economic, educational, public health,
political, and theological concerns free from white regulation and
interference. Centered on the period between 1914 and 1965, Better
Living by Their Own Bootstraps brings long-overdue attention to an
important chapter in Arkansas history, spotlighting a group of
Black women activists who uplifted their communities while
subverting the formidable structures of white supremacy.
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