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First printing, a trade paperback. A collection of essays, re-examinating the roles of both black and white women in Alabama history - as missionaries during Reconstruction, as reformers and suffrage leaders, in politics and during the Civil Rights movement, originally presented in 1990 at a conference of the Alabama Women's History Forum. Among the contributors are Adele Logan Alexander on Adella Hunt Logan and the Tuskeegee Women's Club; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese on Southern women novelists, including Caroline Gilman and Caroline Lee Hentz; Norma Taylor Mitchell on Dr. Louise Branscomb; Sheryl Spradling Summe on Juliette Morgan and the Montgomery bus boycott and more. Photographs. Notes, index. 237 pp. Very good overall (some underlining in chapter 6 only). .ISBN # 0-817307567 

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