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Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women
celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by
highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our
understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as
politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of
eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social,
cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.
Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing,
Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ru ner
Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald, Sara Martin May eld, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia
Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles
Smith, and Harper Lee.
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Alabama Women - Their Lives and Times (Paperback)
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Susan Youngblood Ashmore; Contributions by Christopher D. Haveman, Susan E Reynolds, Sharony Green, …
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Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women
celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by
highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our
understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as
politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of
eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social,
cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.
Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing,
Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ru ner
Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald, Sara Martin May eld, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia
Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles
Smith, and Harper Lee.
Born enslaved in 1861, by 1892 Margaret Murray Washington of Macon,
Mississippi, married the twice-widowed race leader Booker T.
Washington and joined the ranks of the rising black middle class.
While one cannot discount the accomplishments of her storied
husband, Washington's own successes warrant further exploration. In
this first biography of Margaret Murray Washington, author Sheena
Harris discusses Washington's importance as an active clubwoman,
educational reformer, and integral partner to her husband and his
success with the Tuskegee Institute. Individual black, female
leadership continues to be a blind spot in much scholarly
historical literature. Washington was an important educator and
clubwoman whose influence emanated from her own planning and
actions. As Lady Principal, Washington was sincere and earnest in
her campaign to improve Tuskegee Institute. She also transformed
her community through her local club organizations. In addition,
Washington cofounded the National Federation of Afro-American Women
(1895) and the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) (1896).
Harris illustrates how Washington improved race relations as a
whole through local and national organizations such as the Tuskegee
Woman's Club, the NACW, and 1922 creation of the International
Council of Women of the Darker Races (ICWDR). Harris explains
clearly that Washington took her leadership positions seriously and
strategically worked to expand opportunities for blacks through
such organizations. Washington's life provides a glimpse into the
inner workings of the Black Women's Club Movement and illuminates
the experiences of a race woman who came of age during the Jim Crow
South. Harris's biography is a convincing portrait of an
under-studied black woman in the early civil rights movement and
places Washington within the pantheon of other important women of
the era.
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