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Pre-Owned Black Foremothers: Three Lives Second Edition (Paperback) 0935312897 9780935312898

Three heroic women whose stories in the words of Margaret Walker every woman man and child should know: Ellen Craft the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells the firebrand journalist whose... more

Pre-Owned Before the Darkness Falls (Hardcover) 0385230680 9780385230681

Georgia 1842. In this grand and passionate era of American history forged by the dreams of extraordinary men and women the McKay Browning and Stiles families find themselves experiencing love hardship and pain in the great Southern city of Savannah.... more

Pre-Owned Please Come Back to Me: Stories and a Novella (Hardcover) 0820335843 9780820335841

Please Come Back To Me is another remarkable collection by an author the New York Times has called a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth. In The Nurse and the Black Lagoon a woman tries to understand why her teenage son has been accused of a... more

Roadcuts Through The Heart: A Georgia Memoir (Paperback)

In a small Georgia town in the fifties a curious eight-year-old White boy is puzzled. Why is he supposed to hold doors for White but not Black women? Why is there a toilet in the attic? Why are a dark-skinned woman s palms white? As the South... more

Pre-Owned Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South (Paperback) 0882959638 9780882959634

Unlike their Northern counterparts Southern women lived in relative obscurity giving rise to and often making them victims of myth and exaggeration. This in-depth book considers diaries letters and other personal accounts in this enlightening look... more

Pre-Owned Georgia in Black and White : Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State 1865-1950 9780820316208

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Hiring the Black Worker : The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry 1960-1980 9780807847718 Used / Pre-owned

Based on oral history interviews and never-before-used legal records this book reveals how African American men and women fought to integrate the South s largest industry. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good... more

Pre-Owned The Collected Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt (Mass Market Paperback) 0451628438 9780451628435

Unlike the popular Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris Charles W. Chesnutt s tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the... more

Pre-Owned A Devil and a Good Woman Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin (Paperback) 082033250X 9780820332505

Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold lyrical books she pushed the bounds of realism to earn the startled praise of such intellectuals and literary artists... more

Pre-Owned Southern Folk Plain and Fancy : Native White Social Types 9780820308623

Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace Southern Folk Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady lord of the lash and cunning belle fun-loving good old boy depraved redneck and other... more

Pre-Owned Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks 1865-73 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) Paperback

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting /... more

Southern Dissent: The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women s Political Culture (Paperback)

Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Finalist Hooks National Book Award Honorable Mention Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South Deep South Book Prize How Black women used lessons in literacy to crack... more

The Southern almanac with the courts of North and South Carolina Georgia Alabama Tennessee & Florida for the year of our Lord 1856 : being leap year and the latter part of the 80th and beginning

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1855 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South (Paperback)

In Telling Memories Among Southern Women Susan Tucker presents a revealing collection of oral-history narratives that explore the complex sometimes enigmatic bond between black female domestic workers and their white employers from the turn of the... more

Pre-Owned Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History (Paperback 9781469641102) by E Patrick Johnson

9781469641102. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 592. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 592 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white. Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African... more

Routledge Research in American Politics A Tale of Two Parties (Hardcover)

Since 1952 the social bases of the Democratic and Republican parties have undergone radical reshuffling. At the start of this period southern Blacks favored Lincoln s Republican Party over suspect Democrats and women favored Democrats more than... more

Pre-Owned Black Georgia in the Progressive Era 1900-1920 (Paperback) 0252008138 9780252008139

This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century. -- Howard N. Rabinowitz Journal of American History The author shows clearly and forcefully the ways in which this [white] system... more

Pre-Owned The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia (Hardcover) 1557288801 9781557288806

9781557288806. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 171. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 171 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. This book presents one woman s drive to eclipse race and gender... more

Pre-Owned Writing Women s History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott (Hardcover 9781617031731) by Elizabeth Anne Payne

9781617031731. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 240. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Illustrations color. Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History. Anne... more

Pre-Owned Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France: 34 (Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned Montgomery Bus Boycott: Women Who Started It (Paperback) 0870495275 9780870495274

The Montgomery Bus Boycott which ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has always been vitally important in southern and black history. With the publication of this book the boycott becomes a milestone in the history of American... more

Pre-Owned The Varieties of Women s Experiences: Portraits Southern Women in the Post-Civil War (Paperback 9780813036816) by Larry Eugene Rivers Canter Brown Jr

9780813036816. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 352. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. The contributors to The Varieties of Women s Experiences offer fourteen... more

A Woman S Wartime Journal An Account Of The Passage Over A Georgia Plantation Of Sherman S Army On The March To The Sea As Recorded In The Diary Of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas

{Size: 11.43 x 17.78 cms} Lang: - English Pages 74 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back [1918]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour... more

A woman s wartime journal; an account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman s army on the march to the sea as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge); with an

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1918 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

Historical sketch of Ann Pamela Cunningham the southern matron founder of The Mount Vernon ladies association. 1911

{Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 59 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1911]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour... more

A key to Southern pedigrees Being a comprehensive guide to the colonial ancestry of families in the States of Virginia Maryland Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Kentucky

{Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms} Lang: - English Vol: - Volume 8 Pages 165 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1911]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt... more

Les Sauvages Américains : Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature 9780807846520 Used / Pre-owned

Gilmore sets out . . . to reinterpret turn-of-the-century southern politics from the perspective of middle-class black women activists. She succeeds brilliantly. The book not only reclaims the long-buried stories of a group of richly compelling... more

Pre-Owned Les Sauvages Américains : Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature 9780807823460

Gilmore sets out . . . to reinterpret turn-of-the-century southern politics from the perspective of middle-class black women activists. She succeeds brilliantly. The book not only reclaims the long-buried stories of a group of richly compelling... more

Pre-owned Southern Women : Black and White in the Old South Paperback by McMillen Sally Gregory ISBN 0882959638 ISBN-13 9780882959634

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Georgia s Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony (Paperback)

Ranging from Georgia s founding in the 1730s until the American Revolution in the 1770s Georgia s Frontier Women explores women s changing roles amid the developing demographic economic and social circumstances of the colony s settling. Georgia was... more

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (Paperback)

In Hands on the Freedom Plow fifty-two women--northern and southern young and old urban and rural black white and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines... more

Pre-Owned Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 9780807822555 Hardcover

9780807822555. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 326. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 326 p. Contains: Halftones black & white. Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. This study offers an insight into the lives... more

Pre-Owned Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl (Hardcover 9780813122083) by Kitty Oliver

9780813122083. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 184. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 184 p. Contains: Illustrations. Women in Southern Culture. A memoir of journalist Kitty Oliver s coming of age as she crosses from... more

For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois 1877-1932 (Paperback)

Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black women s involvement in southern midwestern and national politics. Examining the oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction... more

Savannah Quartet: Before the Darkness Falls (Paperback)

Georgia 1842. In this grand and passionate era of American history forged by the dreams of extraordinary men and women the McKay Browning and Stiles families find themselves experiencing love hardship and pain in the great Southern city of Savannah.... more

Mater Biscuit : A Homegrown Novel (Paperback)

From the author of Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes comes a heartwarming story of three generations of Southern women working to mend the rifts of the past and set paths for the future. It is summer in Euharlee Georgia and Imogene Lavender s garden is... more

Historical sketch of Ann Pamela Cunningham the southern matron founder of The Mount Vernon ladies association. 1911 [Hardcover]

{Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 59 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1911]. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

Pre-Owned The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love (Paperback 9781400073955) by Beth Pattillo

9781400073955. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 354. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 354 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Six Southern women are about to discover that nothing knits women together... more