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  • - New Deal Advocate for Women
    av Martha H. Swain
    427,-

    Ellen S. Woodward was touted as Roosevelt's second most powerful woman appointee. Among women only Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins could claim more elevated roles in FDR's administration. This long overdue biography traces Woodward's odyssey from the parlors of Mississippi to director of women's work relief under three New Deal agencies.

  • - New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South
    av Dorothy S. Shawhan, Martha H. Swain & Anne Firor Scott
    572,-

    Mississippi native Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895-1997) championed for the rights of women long before feminism was a widely recognised movement. Dorothy Shawhan and Martha Swain tell her remarkable life story, from her small-town upbringing to her career as an attorney, to her role as a New Deal activist in Washington DC.

  • - The New Deal Years
    av Martha H. Swain
    427,-

    Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison was chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance during the New Deal, and under his tutelage the committee handled many of the major measures of the decade. This study focuses on Pat Harrison's relationships with major New Deal figures.

  • - Their Histories, Their Lives
    av Martha H. Swain, Marjorie Julian Spruill & Elizabeth Anne Payne
    444 - 1 636,-

    These biographies aim to gain Mississippi's womens their place in its written record. The women whose stories are told here range from Felicite Girodeau, who was both a person of colour and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who ""mothered"" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta.

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