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Author | : Norma Watkins |
Publisher | : Nautilus |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781936946952 |
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"Norma Watkins' award-winning memoir, The Last Resort, described coming of age during the civil rights movement--when black people, along with anyone white who disagreed with segregation--lived in fear. The book ends when she leaves Mississippi. The sequel, That Woman from Mississippi, opens with that flight and explores the consequences of exile. The nurturing mother is our model, and society does not easily forgive a woman who leaves her children. Partnered with the powerful and attractive civil rights lawyer who carried her away, Watkins tries to balance the love she feels for him, and for graduate school and teaching, with guilt over that loss. In the face of betrayal, she realizes how ridiculous it was to free herself from one man by fastening herself to another. Humorous and discerning, the book shows how excruciating it is for women to do what men take for granted: find a harmony in love, work and parenting"--Back cover.
Author | : Martha H. Swain |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820325033 |
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Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Norma Watkins |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1604739789 |
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Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.
Author | : Tiyi Makeda Morris |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820347302 |
Download Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women's social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach.
Author | : Martha H. Swain |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082033393X |
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Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Alysia Burton Steele |
Publisher | : Center Street |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1455562831 |
Download Delta Jewels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
Author | : Shelby Harriel-Hidlebaugh |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496822021 |
Download Behind the Rifle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the Civil War, Mississippi’s strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state’s system of railroads drew the attention of opposing forces who clashed in major battles for control over these resources. The names of these engagements—Vicksburg, Jackson, Port Gibson, Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo, and Brice’s Crossroads—along with the narratives of the men who fought there resonate in Civil War literature. However, Mississippi’s chronicle of military involvement in the Civil War is not one of men alone. Surprisingly, there were a number of female soldiers disguised as males who stood shoulder to shoulder with them on the firing lines across the state. Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi is a groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi—either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced. Included are two maps and over twenty period photographs of locations relative to the stories of these female fighters along with images of some of the women themselves. The product of over ten years of research, this work provides new details of formerly recorded female fighters, debunks some cases, and introduces over twenty previously undocumented ones. Among these are women soldiers who were involved in such battles beyond Mississippi as Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Readers will also find new documentation regarding female fighters held as prisoners of war in such notorious prisons as Andersonville.
Author | : Noralee Frankel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Freedom's Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Frankel's scholarship in this carefully researched and clearly written study is impressive.... The study is thoroughly documented with 70 pages of footnotes and a 14-page bibliography, refleccting Frankel's grasp of the secondary literature as well as extensive work in primary documents." -- Choice Freedom's Women examines African American women's experiences during the Civil War and early Reconstruction years in Mississippi. Exploring issues of family and work, the author shows how African American women's attempts to achieve more control over their lives shaped their attitudes toward work, marriage, family, and community.
Author | : Anne Firor Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780820325026 |
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Author | : Ruth Vander Zee |
Publisher | : Eerdmans Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780802852113 |
Download Mississippi Morning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Set in 1933 Mississippi, this thought-provoking story about a young boy who lives in an environment of racial hatred will challenge young readers to question their own assumptions and confront personal decisions. Full color.