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Women of the Mountain...
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Item 1 of 34
- Title:
- Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism
- Creator:
- Rice, Connie Park; Tedesco, Marie
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Subjects:
- Women--Appalachian region--Social conditions Women--Political activity--Appalachian Region
- Location:
- Appalachia; United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 305.4 R495w
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll102
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- Rights:
- Copyright ©2015. Ohio University Press. All rights reserved.
Southern Women: More Than...
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Item 2 of 34
- Title:
- Southern Women: More Than 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists, and Icons
- Creator:
- Heckert, Amanda; Glock-Cooper, Allison; Garden & Gun
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Description:
- Summary: Through interviews, essays, photos, and illustrations these remarkable chefs, musicians, actors, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, and public servants will offer a dynamic portrait of who the Southern woman is now. The voices of bona fide icons such as Sissy Spacek, Leah Chase, and Loretta Lynn join those whose stories for too long have been overlooked or underestimated, from the pioneering Texas rancher Minnie Lou Bradley to the Gee's Bend, Alabama, quilter Mary Margaret Pettway--all visionaries who have left their indelible mark not just on Southern culture, but on America itself.
- Subjects:
- Women--Biography Women heroes--Southern states Women artists--Southern states Acresses--Southern states Women cooks--Southern states Women singers--Southern states Women social reformers--Southern states
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 920.720975 H449s
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Southern Women: More Than 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists, and Icons", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll103
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2019. HarperWave, an imprint of Harper Publishers. All rights reserved.
The Woman's Association for...
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Item 3 of 34
- Title:
- The Woman's Association for the Betterment of Public School Houses in North Carolina
- Creator:
- Connor, R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberly)
- Date Created:
- 1906
- Subjects:
- Women--Education--North Carolina
- Location:
- North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- G5 18:W8
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "The Woman's Association for the Betterment of Public School Houses in North Carolina", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll104
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- Rights:
- This item is a public record according to G.S.132.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_132/GS_132-1.pdf
A Separate Sisterhood: Women...
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Item 4 of 34
- Title:
- A Separate Sisterhood: Women Who Shaped Southern Education in the Progressive Era
- Creator:
- Chaddock, Katherine Reynolds; Schramm, Susan L.
- Date Created:
- 2002
- Subjects:
- Education--Southern states--History--19th century Education--Southern states--History--20th century Women educators--Souther states--Biography Educators--Southern states--Biography Southern states--Biography
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 370.82 R463s
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "A Separate Sisterhood: Women Who Shaped Southern Education in the Progressive Era", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll105
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- Copyright ©2002. Peter Lang Publishing. All rights reserved.
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable...
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Item 5 of 34
- Title:
- More Than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women
- Creator:
- Cohn, Scotti
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Subjects:
- Women--North Carolina--Biogarphy Women--North Carolina--History
- Location:
- North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 920.7209756 C678m
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "More Than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll106
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- Rights:
- Copyright ©2012. Globe Pequot Press. All rights reserved.
Voices of Cherokee Women...
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Item 6 of 34
- Title:
- Voices of Cherokee Women
- Creator:
- Johnston, Carolyn
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Description:
- Summary: Voices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travelers, traders, and missionaries who encountered the Cherokees from the 16th century to the present. Among the stories told by these "voices" are those of Rebecca Neugin being carried as a child on the Trail of Tears; Mary Stapler Ross seeing her beautiful Rose Cottage burned to the ground during the Civil War; Hannah Hicks watching as marauders steal her food and split open her feather beds, scattering the feathers in the wind; and girls at the Cherokee Female Seminary studying the same curriculum as women at Mount Holyoke. Voices of Cherokee Women recounts how Cherokee women went from having equality within the tribe to losing much of their political and economic power in the 19th century to regaining power in the 20th, as Joyce Dugan and Wilma Mankiller became the first female chiefs of the Cherokee Nation. The book's publication is timed for the commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the Trail of Tears.
- Subjects:
- Cherokee women--History--Sources Cherokee women--Historiography Cherokee women--Biography
- Location:
- Cherokee; North Carolina; Trail of Tears; Oklahoma
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 975.00497557 V8706
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Voices of Cherokee Women", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll107
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- Rights:
- Copyright ©2013. John F. Blair, Publisher. All rights reserved.
Soldiers in Petticoats: Appalachian...
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Item 7 of 34
- Title:
- Soldiers in Petticoats: Appalachian Educators - Sophia Sawyer, Emily Prudden, Martha Berry
- Creator:
- Reed, Betty Jamerson
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Description:
- Summary: Sophia Sawyer, Emily Prudden, and Martha Berry encountered sexism, prejudice, financial hardship, discrimination, challenging travel conditions, exclusion from the right to vote, and social complacency. On one occasion two militiamen showed up at the school door and threatened to arrest the teacher if she continued teaching black children to read. Another instructor dealt with murder and mayhem, violence, loss of life, and racial hostility. And a third was shunned by her neighbors because she associated with poor mountaineers and "begged" to keep her school open. Their victories against overwhelming obstacles on behalf of struggling youth in the Southern Appalachian region, as well as in Oklahoma and Arkansas, led each into a deeper Christian life. With vision, audacity, and resolution these teachers enabled students to succeed. Their accomplishments as educators and as Christians provide inspiration for today's readers. Sawyer, Prudden, and Berry were viewed in their culture as weak. However, they battled ignorance, bias, superstition, and even dirt, as they effectively changed the lives of thousands of children and adults.
- Subjects:
- Women educators--Appalachian Region--Biography Educators
- Location:
- Appalachia; United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 923.7756 R323s
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Soldiers in Petticoats: Appalachian Educators - Sophia Sawyer, Emily Prudden, Martha Berry", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll108
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2019. Westlow Press. All rights reserved.
Pauli Murray: A Personal...
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Item 8 of 34
- Title:
- Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life
- Creator:
- Saxby, Troy R.
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Description:
- Summary: "The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for gender rights. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was active in radical left-wing political groups and helped innovate nonviolent protest strategies against segregation that would become iconic in later decades, and in the 1960s, she cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW). In addition, Murray became the first African American to receive a Yale law doctorate and the first black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Yet, behind her great public successes, Murray battled many personal demons, including bouts of poor physical and mental health, conflicts over her gender and sexual identities, family traumas, and financial difficulties. In this intimate biography, Troy Saxby provides the most comprehensive account of Murray's inner life to date, revealing her struggles in poignant detail and deepening our understanding and admiration of her numerous achievements in the face of pronounced racism, homophobia, transphobia, and political persecution"
- Subjects:
- African American women--Biography African American women civil rights workers--Biography African American intellectuals--Biography African American lawyers--Biography African American feminists--Biography
- Location:
- Durham; North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 923.6 M983S
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll109
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2020. The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.
Heading South to Teach:...
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Item 9 of 34
- Title:
- Heading South to Teach: The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1845
- Creator:
- Tolley, Kimberley
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Description:
- Summary: Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's life to explore the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles of ambitious, educated women like Hutchison who became teachers for economic, spiritual, and professional reasons. During this era, working women faced significant struggles when balancing career ambitions with social conventions about female domesticity. Hutchison's eventual position as head of a respected southern academy was as close to equity as any woman could achieve in any field. By recounting Hutchison's experiences-from praying with slaves and free blacks in the streets of Raleigh and establishing an independent school in Georgia to defying North Carolina law by teaching slaves to read-Tolley offers a rich microhistory of an antebellum teacher. Hutchison's story reveals broad social and cultural shifts and opens an important window onto the world of women's work in southern education.
- Subjects:
- Education--Southern states--History--19th century Education--United States--History--19th century Educational change--United States--History Teachers--Southern States--Diaries Teachers--United States--Biography Women teachers--United States--Biography
- Location:
- Georgia; North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 371.1 T651h
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Heading South to Teach: The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1845", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll110
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2015. The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown &...
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Item 10 of 34
- Title:
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do
- Creator:
- Wadelington, Charles Weldon; Knapp, Richard F.
- Date Created:
- 1999
- Subjects:
- African American women teachers--North Carolina--Biography Women school administrators--North Carolina--Biography
- Location:
- Sedalia; North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 371.10092 B877w
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll111
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©1999. The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.
Some Pioneer Women Teachers...
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Item 11 of 34
- Title:
- Some Pioneer Women Teachers of North Carolina
- Creator:
- Delta Kappa Gamma Society North Carolina; Camp, Cordelia
- Date Created:
- 1955
- Subjects:
- Women--Education--North Carolina Women--Biography Education--North Carolina Teachers--North Carolina--Biography
- Location:
- North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 923.7756 D366
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Some Pioneer Women Teachers of North Carolina", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll112
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- Rights:
- Copyright unknown
Three Who Dared: Prudence...
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Item 12 of 34
- Title:
- Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner: Champions of Antebellum Black Education
- Creator:
- Foner, Philip Sheldon; Pacheco, Josephine F.
- Date Created:
- 1984
- Subjects:
- African Americans--Education--History--19th century Antislavery movements--United States Women educators--United States--Biography
- Location:
- North Carolina; United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 370.8996073 F673t
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner: Champions of Antebellum Black Education", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll113
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©1984. Greenwood Press. All rights reserved.
A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering...
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Item 13 of 34
- Title:
- A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
- Creator:
- McCluskey, Audrey Thomas
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Description:
- Summary: In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book takes a biographical look at Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs and Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women knew each other through the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The other four women founded schools for African-American children, as well as being activists, lecturers, and suffragists, and the book includes interviews with students who came from around the country to attend these groundbreaking, historic schools.
- Subjects:
- African American educators--Southern states--Biography African American women civil rights workers--Biography African American women educators--Southern States--Biography African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History African Americans--Education--Southern States African Americans--Segregation--Southern States--History African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions Civil rights movements--Southern States--History
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 370.9 M128f
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll114
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2014. Rowman & Littlefield. All rights reserved.
Women at Duke illustrated:...
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Item 14 of 34
- Title:
- Women at Duke illustrated: Making Duke History Since 1838
- Creator:
- Booher, Bridget; Duke University. University Archives
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Subjects:
- Women--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--History Women--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--Pictorial works Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Pictorial works
- Location:
- Durham; North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 378.756563 B64419w
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Women at Duke illustrated: Making Duke History Since 1838", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll115
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2014. Duke University Archives. All rights reserved.
Recasting the Vote: How...
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Item 15 of 34
- Title:
- Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
- Creator:
- Cahill, Cathleen D.
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Description:
- Summary: "In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hau Lee, and Adelina 'Nina' Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment"
- Subjects:
- Women--Suffrage--United States--History Suffragists--United States--History Minority women activists--United States--History Feminism--United States--History
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 324.62309252 C132r
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll116
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2020. The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.
By Her Own Bootstraps:...
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Item 16 of 34
- Title:
- By Her Own Bootstraps: A Saga of Women in North Carolina
- Creator:
- Coates, Albert
- Date Created:
- 1975
- Subjects:
- Women's rights--North Caroina Women--Legal status, laws, etc--North Carolina Women--North Carolina
- Location:
- North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 301.41209756 C652b
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "By Her Own Bootstraps: A Saga of Women in North Carolina", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll117
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©1975. The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.
Roberta Flack, Sound of...
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Item 17 of 34
- Title:
- Roberta Flack, Sound of Velvet Melting
- Creator:
- Altman, Linda Jacobs
- Date Created:
- 1975
- Subjects:
- African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature Singers--Juvenile literature
- Location:
- North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- B F571J
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Roberta Flack, Sound of Velvet Melting", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll118
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©1975. EMC, Corp. All rights reserved.
Harriet Elliott: A Brief...
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Item 18 of 34
- Title:
- Harriet Elliott: A Brief Appreciation
- Creator:
- Link, Susannah J.
- Date Created:
- 1998
- Subjects:
- Women college administrators--North Carolina--Greensbor--Biography Women educators--North Carolina--Greensboro--Biography Women--Political activity--United States--Biography
- Location:
- Greensboro; North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- G55 2:H29
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Harriet Elliott: A Brief Appreciation", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll119
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- Rights:
- Copyright ©1998. University of North Carolina, Greensboro. All rights reserved.
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day...
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Item 19 of 34
- Title:
- Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
- Creator:
- Ramsey, Sonya Yvette
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Subjects:
- African American college teachers--North Carolina--Charlotte--Biography African American women college teachers--North Carolina--Charlotte--Biography College teachers--North Carolina--Charolotte--Biography Discrimination in higher eduation--North Carolina--Charlotte--History
- Location:
- Charlotte; North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 973.082 R183b
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll120
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2022. University Press of Florida. All rights reserved.
North Carolina aviatrix Viola...
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Item 20 of 34
- Title:
- North Carolina aviatrix Viola Gentry: The Flying Cashier
- Creator:
- Bower, Jennifer Bean; Takacs, Chris
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Description:
- Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924 and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's solo endurance flight record. She became the first federally licensed female pilot from North Carolina that same year. She was a national celebrity, and her job in a New York restaurant secured her the nickname the "Flying Cashier." Gentry became personal friends with fellow pioneers of aviation Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post and General James "Jimmy" Doolittle. After a near-fatal crash, Gentry focused her efforts on championing aviation for women and preserving its early history. Author Jennifer Bean Bower reveals the life of one of the great women in Tar Heel State history. -- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects:
- Women air pilots--North Carolina--Biography
- Location:
- Rockingham County; North Carolina
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 975.6 B786n
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "North Carolina aviatrix Viola Gentry: The Flying Cashier", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll121
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2015. History Press. All rights reserved.
Female Abolitionists: Phillis Wheatley,...
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Item 21 of 34
- Title:
- Female Abolitionists: Phillis Wheatley, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others
- Creator:
- Blaisdell, Robert
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Description:
- Many women joined the abolitionist cause in the nineteenth century, became as active as men, and were critical to the movement's success. Black and white women alike raised money and awareness and wrote and spoke passionately against slavery, becoming instrumental in spreading that message far and wide. Several of these women wrote essays for William Lloyd Garrison's publication The Liberator, and others wrote books, created pamphlets, and made speeches. This collection of essays and speeches by a bold group of women will educate and inspire all who are interested in this era of American history
- Subjects:
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--Sources Women abolitionists--United States--History--Sources Women--Political activity--United States--History--Sources American literature--Women authors American literature--19th century Women Womyn
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 973.7114092 F329f
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Female Abolitionists: Phillis Wheatley, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll122
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- Rights:
- Copyright ©2021. Dover Publications. All rights reserved.
Vanguard: How Black Women...
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Item 22 of 34
- Title:
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- Creator:
- Jones, Martha S.
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Description:
- According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha Jones offers a sweeping history of African American women's political lives in America, recounting how they fought for, won, and used the right to the ballot and how they fought against both racism and sexism. From 1830s Boston to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and beyond to Shirley Chisholm, Stacey Abrams, and Kamala Harris, Jones excavates the lives and work of Black women who, although in many cases suffragists, were never single-issue activists. She recounts the lives of Maria Stewart, the first American woman to speak about politics before a mixed audience of men and women; African Methodist Episcopal preacher Jarena Lee; Reconstruction-era advocate for female suffrage Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Boston abolitionist, religious leader, and women's club organizer Eliza Ann Gardner; and other hidden figures who were pioneers for both gender and racial equality. Revealing the ways Black women remained independent in their ideas and their organization, Jones shows how Black women were again and again the American vanguard of women's rights, setting the pace in the quest for justice and collective liberation. In the twenty-first century, Black women's power at the polls and in politics is evident. Vanguard reveals that this power is not at all new, but is instead the culmination of two centuries of dramatic struggle
- Subjects:
- African American women suffragists--History African American women social reformers--History African American women political activists--History African Americans--Suffrage--History Women--Suffrage--United States--History Women Womyn
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 323.34073 J76v
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll123
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- Rights:
- Copyright ©2020. Basic Books. All Rights Reserved.
Beyond Norma Rae: How...
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Item 23 of 34
- Title:
- Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
- Creator:
- Loiselle, Aimee
- Date Created:
- [2023]
- Description:
- In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field in the title role. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labor history that formed the foundation of the film's story. Drawing on an impressive range of sources-union records, industry reports, film scripts, and oral histories-Aimee Loiselle's cutting-edge scholarship shows how gender, race, culture, film, and mythology have reconfigured and often undermined the history of the American working class and their labor activism. While Norma Rae constructed a powerful image of individual defiance by a white working-class woman, Loiselle demonstrates that female industrial workers across the country and from diverse racial backgrounds understood the significance of cultural representation and fought to tell their own stories. Loiselle painstakingly reconstructs the underlying histories of working women in this era and makes clear that cultural depictions must be understood as the complicated creations they are
- Subjects:
- Working class women--United States--History--20th century Women in the labor movement--United States--History--20th century Needleworkers--Labor unions--Organizing--United States--History--20th century Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing--United States--History--20th century Women--Political activity--Southern States--20th century Puerto Rican women--Political activity--20th century Labor movement--United States--History--20th century Women labor leaders--United States--History--20th century Working class--United States--History--20th century
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 331.40975 L834b
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll124
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2023]. The University of North Carolina Press. All Rights Reserved.
Massive resistance and Southern...
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Item 24 of 34
- Title:
- Massive resistance and Southern womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation
- Creator:
- Brückmann, Rebecca
- Date Created:
- [2021]
- Description:
- Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women who were active in segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, New Orleans, and Charleston from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. Through her examination, Rebecca Brückmann uncovers and evaluates the roles, actions, self-understandings, and media representations of segregationist women in massive resistance in urban and metropolitan settings. Brückmann argues that white women were motivated by an everyday culture of white supremacy, and they created performative spaces for their segregationist agitation in the public sphere to legitimize their actions. While other studies of mass resistance have focused on maternalism, Brückmann shows that women's invocation of motherhood was varied and primarily served as a tactical tool to continuously expand these women's spaces. Through this examination she differentiates the circumstances, tactics, and representations used in the creation of performative spaces by working-class, middle-class, and elite women engaged in massive resistance. Brückmann focuses on the transgressive "street politics" of working-class female activists in Little Rock and New Orleans that contrasted with the more traditional political actions of segregationist, middle-class, and elite women in Charleston, who aligned white supremacist agitation with long-standing experience in conservative women's clubs, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Working-class women's groups chose consciously transgressive strategies, including violence, to elicit shock value and create states of emergency to further legitimize their actions and push for white supremacy
- Subjects:
- White supremacy movements--Southern States--History--20th century Women, White--Political activity--Southern States--History--20th century Women, White--Southern States--Attitudes--History--20th century Women, White--Southern States--Social life and customs--History--20th century Segregation--Southern States--History--20th century Race discrimination--Southern States--History--20th century Racism--Southern States--History--20th century Racism Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 305.800975 B888m
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Massive resistance and Southern womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll125
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2021]. The University of Georgia Press. All Rights Reserved.
On This Day She:...
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Item 25 of 34
- Title:
- On This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time
- Creator:
- Bell, Jo; Hershman, Tania; Holland, Ailsa
- Date Created:
- [2022]
- Description:
- A fascinating page-a-day collection profiling extraordinary women of all races, eras, and nationalities. Our past is full of influential women. Whether politicians, troublemakers, explorers, artists, and even the odd murderer, women have shaped society around the globe. But too often, these women have been unfairly confined to the margins of history. On This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time corrects this imbalance. A day-by-day collection of inspiring stories about incredible women who made history but seldom received the acknowledgement they deserved, this book introduces readers to women of all colors, eras, and nationalities. From Queen Elizabeth I to Beyoncé, Doria Shafik to Lillian Bilocca, this book gives voice both to female icons and to those whom the history books have overlooked. These women campaigned, cured, and adventured their way through life. They include musicians, painters, scientists, poets, and more. Spanning centuries, On This Day She is a record of human existence at its most authentic
- Subjects:
- Women--Biography Women--History Women Womyn
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 920.72 B433o
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "On This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll126
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2022]. Rowman & Littlefield. All Rights Reserved.
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice,...
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Item 26 of 34
- Title:
- Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
- Creator:
- Wilson, Wylin D.
- Date Created:
- [2025]
- Description:
- Womanist Bioethics introduces a practical framework to address health disparities and inequities, arguing that doing justice to Black women's bodies entails understanding health and vulnerability as cultural productions, thus implicating medical, policy-making, economic and religious institutions in the Black women's health crisis
- Subjects:
- Feminist bioethics--United States African American women--Medical care--Case studies African American women--Health and hygiene--Case studies Bioethics--United States Womanism--United States
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 362.839996 W746w
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll127
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2025]. New York University Press. All Rights Reserved.
Hidden Figures: the American...
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Item 27 of 34
- Title:
- Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped win the Space Race
- Creator:
- Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Date Created:
- [2016]
- Description:
- Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia, and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens
- Subjects:
- Women mathematicians--United States--Biography African American women--Biography African American mathematicians--Biography Space race
- Location:
- Hampton; VIrginia; United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 973.082 S554h
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped win the Space Race", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll128
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2016]. William Morrow. All Rights Reserved.
Womenfolks: Growing Up Down...
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Item 28 of 34
- Title:
- Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
- Creator:
- Abbott, Shirley
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Description:
- A classic that has been in print since its first publicatioin in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history. Shirley Abbott gives us the gritty, independent women of the backwoods, the South's true heriones, whos hardscrabble world is one of red dirt and hard work--a far cry from the hoopskirts and magnoliasof southern lore. As honest, vibrant, and remarkable as the women whose stories illuminate these pages, Womenfolks draws a vivid portrait of rural culture beset by poverty and sustained by deeply rooted traditions. In her new preface to this edition, Abbott assesses what has changed--and what may never change--about the burdens of southern history and expresses her hope that the better angels of our nature may prevail in our still-new century
- Subjects:
- Women--Southern States Rural women--Southern States Rural poor--Southern States Women Womyn
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 305.40975 A129w
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll129
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2017. The University of Arkansas Press. All Rights Reserved.
Invisible Women: Data Bias...
Women's History Print Resources
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Item 29 of 34
- Title:
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Creator:
- Criado-Perez, Caroline
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Description:
- Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women's lives. Product designers use a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men's needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women's safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated., and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world
- Subjects:
- Sex discrimination against women Sexism Women--Research--Methodology Research--Methodology--Sex differences Women--Social conditions Women--Economic conditions Women--Health and hygiene Male domination (Social structure) Social sciences--Research Sex role--Research--Methodology Sexism Women Womyn Gender roles
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 305.420721 P438i
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll130
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2019. Abrams Press, an imprint of ABRAMS. All Rights Reserved.
Women Who Invented the...
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Item 30 of 34
- Title:
- Women Who Invented the Sixties: Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan
- Creator:
- Golin, Steve
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Subjects:
- Social movements--United States--History--20th century Nineteen sixties Women political activists--United States--Biography Social movements
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 920.72 G626w
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Women Who Invented the Sixties: Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll131
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2022. University Press of Mississippi. All Rights Reserved.
Talking Back: Native Women...
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Item 31 of 34
- Title:
- Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
- Creator:
- Dubcovsky, Alejandra
- Date Created:
- [2023]
- Subjects:
- Indian women--Southern States--Social conditions--17th century Indigenous women--Southern States--Social conditions--17th century Sex role--Southern States--History--17th century Gender roles
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 973.082 D813t
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll132
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2023]. Yale University Press. All Rights Reserved.
Enterprising Women: Gender, Race,...
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Item 32 of 34
- Title:
- Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
- Creator:
- Candlin, Kit; Pybus, Cassandra
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Description:
- In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas's mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara. Dorothy Thomas's story is but one of the remarkable accounts of pluck and courage recovered in Enterprising Women. As the microbiographies in this book reveal, free women of color in Britain's Caribbean colonies were not merely the dependent concubines of the white male elite, as is commonly assumed. In the capricious world of the slave colonies during the age of revolutions, some of them were able to rise to dizzying heights of success. These highly entrepreneurial women exercised remarkable mobility and developed extensive commercial and kinship connections in the metropolitan heart of empire while raising well-educated children who were able to penetrate deep into British life
- Subjects:
- Multiracial women--Caribbean Area--History--19th century Women, Black--Caribbean Area--History--19th century Businesswomen--Caribbean Area--History--19th century Social stratification--Caribbean Area--History--18th century
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 972.00082 C218e
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll133
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©2018. University of Georgia Pres. All Rights Reserved.
Antebellum Women: Private, Public,...
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Item 33 of 34
- Title:
- Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan
- Creator:
- Lasser, Carol; Robertson, Stacey M.
- Date Created:
- [2010]
- Subjects:
- Women--United States--Social conditions--19th century Women--United States--Social conditions--18th century Women--Political activity--United States--History--19th century Women--Political activity--United States--History--18th century Women Womyn
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 305.40973 L337a
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll134
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2010]. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. All Rights Reserved.
Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty...
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Item 34 of 34
- Title:
- Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
- Creator:
- Roberts, Blain
- Date Created:
- [2014]
- Description:
- From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow-era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that emphasized whiteness, and where, in the 1950s and 1960s, black-owned beauty shops served as crucial sites of resistance for civil rights activists. In these times of strained relations in the South, beauty became a signifier of power and affluence while it reinforced racial strife. Roberts examines a range of beauty products, practices, and rituals--cosmetics, hairdressing, clothing, and beauty contests--in settings that range from tobacco farms of the Great Depression to 1950s and 1960s college campuses. In so doing, she uncovers the role of female beauty in the economic and cultural modernization of the South. By showing how battles over beauty came to a head during the civil rights movement, Roberts sheds new light on the tactics southerners used to resist and achieve desegregation.
- Subjects:
- Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century Race awareness--Southern States--History--20th century African American women--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century Black race--Color--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century Human skin color--Southern States--Psychological aspects--History--20th century Cosmetics--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century Beauty shops--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century Beauty contests--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century
- Location:
- United States
- Source:
- State Library of NC.
- Source Identifier:
- 323.34 R643p
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- book
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html#coll135
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright ©[2014]. The University of North Carolina Press. All Rights Reserved.
- Title:
- Women's History Print Resources
- Description:
- These print items are available at the Government and Heritage Library in downtown Raleigh at 109 E. Jones Street.
- Subjects:
- Women
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Women's History Print Resources", She Changed the World, North Carolina Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/shechangedtheworld/items/coll101.html