Battling Nell: the life of southern journalist Cornelia Battle Lewis, 1893-1956
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1. Verfasser: Leidholdt, Alexander (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2009
Schriftenreihe:Southern biography series
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index
Introduction -- A gilded cage -- Beyond the pale -- A mind of her own -- A knife in the back -- Barbarous Gaston -- In desperation -- "A poor burnt child" -- New battlegrounds -- Fanning the flames -- "With all deliberate speed" -- Conclusion
A longtime columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer, Cornelia Battle Lewis earned a national reputation in the 1920s and 1930s for her courageous advocacy on behalf of women's rights, African Americans, children, and labor unions. Late in her life, however, after fighting mental illness, Lewis reversed many of her stances and railed against the liberalism she had spent her life advancing. In Battling Nell, Alexander S. Leidholdt tells the compelling and ultimately tragic life story of this groundbreaking journalist against the backdrop of the turbulent post-Reconstruction Jim Crow South and
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 331 pages, [8] pages of plates)
ISBN:0807136700
9780807136706

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