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Author : Nancy Hendricks
Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Notable Women of Arkansas by : Nancy Hendricks
Download or read book Notable Women of Arkansas written by Nancy Hendricks. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Arkansas women profiled in this book have blazed trails in athletics, civil rights, literature, politics, science, entertainment, and the arts"--
Author : Cherisse Jones-Branch
Release : 2018-06-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 329/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Arkansas Women by : Cherisse Jones-Branch
Download or read book Arkansas Women written by Cherisse Jones-Branch. This book was released on 2018-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women’s experiences across time and space from the state’s earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women, with a particular appreciation for how gendered issues influenced the historical moment in which they lived. Diverse in nature, Arkansas Women contains stories about women on the Arkansas frontier, including the narratives of indigenous women and their interactions with European men and of bondwomen of African descent who were forcibly moved to Arkansas from the seaboard South to labor on cotton plantations. There are also essays about twentieth-century women who were agents of change in their communities, such as Hilda Kahlert Cornish and the Arkansas birth control movement, Adolphine Fletcher Terry’s antisegregationist social activism, and Sue Cowan Morris’s Little Rock classroom teachers’ salary equalization suit. Collectively, these inspirational essays work to acknowledge women’s accomplishments and to further discussions about their contributions to Arkansas’s rich cultural heritage. Contributors: Michael Dougan on Mary Sybil Kidd Maynard Lewis Gary T. Edwards on Amanda Trulock Dianna Fraley on Adolphine Fletcher Terry Sarah Wilkerson Freeman on Senator Hattie Caraway Rebecca Howard on Women of the Ozarks in the Civil War Elizabeth Jacoway on Daisy Lee Gatson Bates Kelly Houston Jones on Bondwomen on Arkansas’s Cotton Frontier John Kirk on Sue Cowan Morris Marianne Leung on Hilda Kahlert Cornish Rachel Reynolds Luster on Mary Celestia Parler Loretta N. McGregor on Dr. Mamie Katherine Phipps Clark Michael Pierce on Freda Hogan Debra A. Reid on Mary L. Ray Yulonda Eadie Sano on Edith Mae Irby Jones Sonia Toudji on Women in Early Frontier Arkansas
Author : Arkansas Co-ordinating Committee for International Women's Year
Release : 1977
Genre : Arkansas
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Book Synopsis Some Remarkable Women of Arkansas by : Arkansas Co-ordinating Committee for International Women's Year
Download or read book Some Remarkable Women of Arkansas written by Arkansas Co-ordinating Committee for International Women's Year. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeannie M. Whayne
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 874/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Arkansas Biography by : Jeannie M. Whayne
Download or read book Arkansas Biography written by Jeannie M. Whayne. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years in the making, Arkansas Biography brings to light the lives of those who have helped shape Arkansas history for over four hundred years. Featured are not only the trailblazers, such as steamboat captain Henry Shreve, Olympic gold medalist Bill Carr, discount mogul Sam Walton, and aviator Louise Thaden, but also those whose lives reflect their culture and times--musicians, scientists, teachers, preachers, and journalists. One hundred and eighty contributors--professional and avocational historians--offer clear vignettes of nearly three hundred individuals, beginning with Hernando de Soto, who crossed the Mississippi River in the summer of 1540. The entries include birth and death dates and places, life and career highlights, lineage, anecdotes, and source material. This is a browser's book with an Arkansas voice. The wealth of information condensed into this single reference volume will be valuable to general readers of all ages, libraries, museums, and scholars. A fitting summary at the turn of a millennium, Arkansas Biography pays lasting tribute to the men and women who have enriched the life and character of the state and, by extension, the region and the nation.
Author : Bernadette Cahill
Release : 2015-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 821/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote by : Bernadette Cahill
Download or read book Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote written by Bernadette Cahill. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women from all over Arkansas—left out of the civil rights granted by the post–Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—took part in a long struggle to gain the primary civil right of American citizens: voting. The state’s capital city of Little Rock served as the focal point not only for suffrage work in Arkansas, but also for the state’s contribution to the nationwide nonviolent campaign for women’s suffrage that reached its climax between 1913 and 1920. Based on original research, Cahill’s book relates the history of some of those who contributed to this victorious struggle, reveals long-forgotten photographs, includes a map of the locations of meetings and rallies, and provides a list of Arkansas suffragists who helped ensure that discrimination could no longer exclude women from participation in the political life of the state and nation.
