Battling Nell : the life of southern journalist Cornelia Battle Lewis, 1893-1956 /
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, Lew...
| Основен автор: | Leidholdt, Alexander. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Серия: |
Southern biography series.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=301952 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Battling Nell. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 331 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780807136706 0807136700 0807134554 9780807134559 |