Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching

First printing of this edition bound in red cloth with white spine lettering. A near fine copy. Small fray at the lower front corner. No dust jacket.

History

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Americas

Columbia University Press

This newly updated edition connects the past with the present, using the Clarence Thomas hearings -and their characterization by Thomas as a "high-tech lynching"- to examine the links between white supremacy and the sexual abuse of black women, and the difficulty of forging an antiracist movement against sexual violence.
 Revolt Against Chivalry is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.
The book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to militant antiracism and provides a detailed description of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which served through the 1930s as the chief expression of antilynching sentiment in the white South.
 Revolt Against Chivalry is also a biography of Ames herself: it shows how Ames connected women's opposition to violence with their search for influence and self-definition, thereby leading a revolt against chivalry which was part of both sexual and racial emancipation.

Uses interviews, letters, and excerpts from the trade press to depict life in a Southern cotton mill village

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

James Leloudis

Robert Korstad

Lu Ann Jones

Christopher B. Daly

MARY, MURPHY

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

Univ of North Carolina Pr

University of North Carolina Press

A classic study of labor history in the textile industry of the South during the 1920s and 30s. The authors drew from extensive interviews, letters, and newspaper articles to reconstruct the lives and struggles of factory workers and their families.

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

Business & Money

Economics

The University of North Carolina Press

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