South Carolina Women : Their Lives and Times, Volume 2.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marjorie Julian Spruill -- Laura Towne and Ellen Murray: Northern Expatriates and the Foundations of Black Education in South Carolina, 1862- 1908 -- Martha Fell Schofield and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright: Women Founders of South Carolina African American Schools -- The Rollin Sisters: Black Women in Reconstruction South Carolina -- Sarah Morgan Dawson: A New Southern Woman in Postwar Charleston -- Sallie Chapin: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Reconciliation after the Civil War -- Louisa B. Poppenheim and Marion B. Wilkinson: The Parallel Lives of Black and White Clubwomen -- Lucy Dugas Tillman: Child Custody, Motherhood, and the Power of a Populist Demagogue -- Eulalie Salley and Emma Dunovant: A Complementary Pair of Suffragists -- Anita Pollitzer: A South Carolina Advocate for Equal Rights -- Irene Goldsmith Kohn: An Assimilated "New South" Daughter and Jewish Women's Activism in Early Twentieth - Century South Carolina -- Susan Pringle Frost: Historic Preservation in Charleston and Gendered Identity in the Emerging New South -- Josephine Pinckney: Literary Interpreter of the Modern South -- Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner: Champions of the Charleston Renaissance -- Matilda Evans: Health Care Activism of a Black Woman Physician -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era.

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