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Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America

Hall, Jacquelyn, author

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\"Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege. Born in late nineteenth-century Georgia, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. Their father was a member of the KKK; the older girls performed at rallies celebrating the 'Lost Cause.' While Elizabeth remained in the South, Grace and Katharine, moved by liberal Christianity and emboldened by the YWCA, became impassioned activists for social justice and groundbreaking progressive writers. In bohemian Greenwich Village and not-so-bluestocking Northampton, Massachusetts, they helped to forge a tradition of left-leaning, antiracist, and feminist dissent, while powerfully asserting their identity as Southern women. Distinguished historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall places these ordinary yet extraordinary women in the center of American intellectual history, and explores how each sister came to different understandings of race, gender, and the South; committed, albeit in radically different ways, to remaking the region as a place they could continue to call home\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
• Subject: Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre, 1897-1988. / Lumpkin, Grace, 1891-1980. / Glenn, Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin, 1880 or 1881-1963. / Sisters Georgia Biography. / Women, White Georgia Biography. / Women authors, American Biography. / Women political activists United States Biography. / Group identity Southern States History 20th century. / Southern States Race relations History 20th century. / United States Intellectual life 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780393047998

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F291.L89 H35 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE