Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America

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Label

Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America

Title remainder

a struggle for the soul of America

Statement of responsibility

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Creator

• Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd

Author

• Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd

Subject

• Biography
• Georgia
• Glenn, Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin, 1880 or 1881-1963
• Group identity
• Group identity -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• History
• Intellectual life
• Lumpkin, Grace, 1891-1980
• Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre, 1897-1988
• Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre, 1897-1988
• Race relations
• Sisters
• Sisters -- Georgia -- Biography
• 1900-1999
• Southern States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• United States
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Women authors, American
• Women authors, American -- Biography
• Women political activists
• Women political activists -- United States -- Biography
• Women, White
• Women, White -- Georgia -- Biography
• Southern States
• Biographies

Genre

• History
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

305.800975/0904

Illustrations

photographs

Index

index present

LC call number

F291.L89

LC item number

H35 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography