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Suggested Reading compiled by:

Jean Friedman, Ph.D.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D.

Virginia Shadron, Ph.D.

Advisory Committee of Scholars

General Reading

Alexander, Adele Logan. Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

Coleman, Kenneth, and Charles Stephen Gurr, eds. Dictionary of Georgia Biography, 2 vols. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.

Craft, William, and Ellen Craft. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. New York: Arno Press, 1969. (Reprint of 1860 ed.)

Felton, Rebecca Latimer. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth. Atlanta: Index Printing Co., 1919.

________. My Memoirs of Georgia Politics. Atlanta: Index Printing Co., 1911.

________. The Romantic Story of Georgia?s Women. Atlanta: Atlanta Georgian and Sunday American, 1930.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

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.

Friedman, Jean E. The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Gordon, Lynn D. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Gwin, Minrose C. Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood of American Literature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1993.

Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Loveland, Anne C. Lillian Smith, A Southerner Confronting the South: A Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.

Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre. The Making of a Southerner. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Reprint: University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895- 1925. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Rouse, Jacqueline Anne. Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Scott, Ann Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Guides to Sources and Methods

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.

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.

Roth, Darlene R., and Virginia Shadron. Women?s Records: A Preliminary Guide. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1978.