South Carolina women their lives and times. / Volume 3 / [electronic resource] : edited by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson.

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson -- Ruby Forsythe and Fannie Phelps Adams, teaching for confrontation during Jim Crow / Valinda W. Littlefield -- Mary Gordon Ellis, the politics of race and gender from schoolhouse to statehouse / Carol Sears Botsch -- Julia Mood Peterkin and Wil Lou Gray, the art and science of race progress / Mary Mac Ogden -- Dr. Hilla Sheriff, caught between science and the state at the South Carolina, midwife training institutes / Patricia Evridge Hill -- Julia and Alice Delk, from rural life to welding at the Charleston Navy Yard in World War II / Fritz P. Hamer -- Louise Smith, the first lady of racing / Suzanne Wise -- Mary Blackwell Baker, her quiet campaign for labor justice / Constance Ashton Myers -- Susan Dart Butler and Ethel Martin Bolden, South Carolina's pioneer African American librarians / Georgette Mayo -- Harriet Simons, women, race, politics, and the League of Women Voters of South Carolina / Jennifer E. Black -- Alice Buck Norwood Spearman Wright, a civil rights activist / Marcia G. Synnott -- Modjeska Monteith Simkins, I cannot be bought and will not be sold / Cherisse Jones-Branch -- Septima Poinsette Clark, the evolution of an educational stateswoman / Katherine Mellen Charron -- Mary Elizabeth Massey, a founder of women's history in the South / Constance Ashton Myers -- Polly Woodham, the many roles of rural women / Melissa Walker -- Mary Jane Manigault, a basket maker's legacy / Kate Porter Young -- Dolly Hamby, the rise of two-party politics in South Carolina / John W. White -- Harriet Keyserling, political trailblazer / Page Putnam Miller -- Victoria Eslinger, Keller Bumgardner Barron, Mary Heriot, Tootsie Holland, and Pat Callair, champions of women's rights in South Carolina / Marjorie Julian Spruill -- Jean Hoefer Toal, the rise of women in the legal profession / W. Lewis Burke and Bakari T. Sellers -- Notes on contributors -- Index.

The three volumes of South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times highlight the long and fascinating history of the women of the Palmetto State, women whose stories have oft en been told as well as women whose lives warrant far more attention than they have received. The collection of essays is designed to enrich our understanding of the history of South Carolina and the nation as we examine the lives and times of the dozens of women whose stories appear within. The essays are intended to be of interest to a wide audience as well as useful to scholars at every level. For that reason we have chosen a "life and times" approach, through which the lives of individual women are explored within the context of time and place.

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