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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.
This title presents civil rights, economic justice, and the
competition for political power after the Voting Rights Act.""Carry
It On"" is an in-depth study of how the local struggle for equality
in Alabama fared in the wake of new federal laws - the Civil Rights
Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the Voting Rights Act. Susan
Youngblood Ashmore provides a sharper definition to changes set in
motion by the fall of legal segregation. She focuses her detailed
story on the Alabama Black Belt and on the local projects funded by
the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the federal agency that
supported programs in a variety of cities and towns in Alabama.
Black Belt activists who used OEO funds understood that the
structural underpinnings of poverty were key components of white
supremacy, says Ashmore. They were motivated not only to end
poverty but also to force local governments to comply with new
federal legislation aimed at achieving racial equality on a number
of fronts.Ashmore looks closely at the interactions among local
activists, elected officials, businesspeople, landowners,
bureaucrats, and others who were involved in or affected by OEO
projects. ""Carry It On"" offers a nuanced picture of the OEO, an
agency too broadly criticized; a new look at the rise of southern
Black Power; and a compelling portrait of local citizens struggling
for control over their own lives. Ashmore provides a more complete
understanding of how southerners worked to define for themselves
how freedom would come during the years shaped by the civil rights
movement and the war on poverty.
This title presents civil rights, economic justice, and the
competition for political power after the Voting Rights Act.""Carry
It On"" is an in-depth study of how the local struggle for equality
in Alabama fared in the wake of new federal laws - the Civil Rights
Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the Voting Rights Act. Susan
Youngblood Ashmore provides a sharper definition to changes set in
motion by the fall of legal segregation. She focuses her detailed
story on the Alabama Black Belt and on the local projects funded by
the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the federal agency that
supported programs in a variety of cities and towns in Alabama.
Black Belt activists who used OEO funds understood that the
structural underpinnings of poverty were key components of white
supremacy, says Ashmore. They were motivated not only to end
poverty but also to force local governments to comply with new
federal legislation aimed at achieving racial equality on a number
of fronts.Ashmore looks closely at the interactions among local
activists, elected officials, businesspeople, landowners,
bureaucrats, and others who were involved in or affected by OEO
projects. ""Carry It On"" offers a nuanced picture of the OEO, an
agency too broadly criticized; a new look at the rise of southern
Black Power; and a compelling portrait of local citizens struggling
for control over their own lives. Ashmore provides a more complete
understanding of how southerners worked to define for themselves
how freedom would come during the years shaped by the civil rights
movement and the war on poverty.
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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.
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