Lisa Lindquist Dorr (Editor) LISA LINDQUIST DORR is an associate professor of history and the associate dean for social sciences at the University of Alabama. She is the author of
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960.
Susan Youngblood Ashmore (Editor) SUSAN YOUNGBLOOD ASHMORE is a professor of history at Oxford College of Emory University. She is the author of
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972.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 Ruffner Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sara Martin Mayfield, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles Smith, and Harper Lee.
Contributors:
-Nancy Grisham Anderson on Harper Lee
-Harriet E. Amos Doss on the enslaved women surgical patients of J. Marion Sims
-Wayne Flynt and Marlene Hunt Rikard on Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
-Caroline Gebhard on Bess Bolden Walcott
-Staci Simon Glover on the immigrant women in metropolitan Birmingham
-Sharony Green on the Townsend Family
-Sheena Harris on Margaret Murray Washington
-Christopher D. Haveman on the women of the CrlƒR
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