Suggested Reading
Compiled by
Jean Friedman, Ph.D., Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D.,
and Virginia Shadron, Ph.D.
Advisory Committee of Scholars
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Alexander, Adele Logan. Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color
in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879. Fayetteville: University of
Arkansas Press, 1991.
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Coleman, Kenneth, and Charles Stephen
Gurr, eds. Dictionary of Georgia Biography, 2 vols. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1983.
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Craft, William, and Ellen Craft. Running a Thousand Miles for
Freedom. New York: Arno Press, 1969. (Reprint of 1860 ed.)
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Felton, Rebecca Latimer. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of
My Youth. Atlanta: Index Printing Co., 1919.
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________. My Memoirs of Georgia Politics. Atlanta: Index
Printing Co., 1911.
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________. The Romantic Story of
Georgia’s Women. Atlanta: Atlanta Georgian and Sunday
American, 1930.
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Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household:
Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
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Fraser, Walter J.,
Jr., R. Frank Saunders, Jr., and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds. The Web
of Southern Social Relations: Women, Family, and Education.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
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Friedman, Jean E. The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in
the Evangelical South, 1830-1900. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1985.
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Gordon, Lynn D. Gender and
Higher Education in the Progressive Era. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1990.
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Gwin, Minrose C. Black and White Women of the Old South: The
Peculiar Sisterhood of American Literature. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
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Hine, Darlene Clark, ed.
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 2 vols.
Brooklyn, N. Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1993.
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Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern
Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
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Loveland, Anne C.
Lillian Smith, A Southerner Confronting the South: A Biography.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
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Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre. The Making of a Southerner.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Reprint: University of Georgia
Press, 1991.
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Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in
American Reform, 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University Press,
1991.
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Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. Afro-American Women of the South
and the Advancement of the Race, 1895- 1925. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
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Rosenberg, Rosalind.
Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
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Rouse, Jacqueline Anne. Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern
Reformer. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
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Scott, Ann Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics,
1830-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
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| Guides to Sources and Methods |
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Deutrich, Mabel E., and Virginia C. Purdy, eds. Clio Was A
Woman: Studies in the History of American Women. Washington,
D. C.: Howard University Press, 1980.
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Hinding, Andrea, Ames
Sheldon Bower, and Clark A. Chambers. Women’s History Sources:
A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United
States. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1979.
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Roth, Darlene R., and Virginia Shadron. Women’s Records: A
Preliminary Guide. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Archives
and History, 1978.
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This reading list is offered in conjunction with the
Georgia Women of Achievement
traveling exhibit.
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