Arkansas Women

Their Lives and Times

Cherisse Jones-Branch, Gary T. Edwards

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780820353333, 9780820353319
• eBook ISBN: 9780820353326
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's experiences across time and space from the state's earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women, with a particular appreciation for how gendered issues influenced the historical moment in which they lived.

Diverse in nature, Arkansas Women contains stories about women on the Arkansas frontier, including the narratives of indigenous women and their interactions with European men and of bondwomen of African descent who were forcibly moved to Arkansas from the seaboard South to labor on cotton plantations. There are also essays about twentieth-century women who were agents of change in their communities, such as Hilda Kahlert Cornish and the Arkansas birth control movement, Adolphine Fletcher Terry's antisegregationist social activism, and Sue Cowan Morris's Little Rock classroom teachers' salary equalization suit. Collectively, these inspirational essays work to acknowledge women's accomplishments and to further discussions about their contributions to Arkansas's rich cultural heritage.

Index

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Aaron v. Cooper (1958), 191, 202

Adeline (enslaved girl), 36

Adkins, Homer, 125

Allen, Hannah, 34

Allen, John Mebane, 30–32

Alliance Patriot, 95

Allison, Lucindy, 34

all-white primaries, 125

Alston, Melvin O., 181, 182

Amelia (Parmelia; enslaved woman), 29

America (enslaved woman), 64–65

American Association of University Women, 271

American Birth Control League, 141

American Legion Auxiliary, 167

American Medical Association (AMA), 145, 149–50

Ameringer, Freda Hogan. See Hogan, Freda

Ameringer, Oscar, 100, 103–4

Anderson, John Murray, 278

Anthony (enslaved man), 40

Arkansas Agricultural Extension Service: black

farmers as agents, 242–43

canning clubs, 242–43

funding for, 241–43, 244–45

girls’ club work, 242

landowning farmers and, 246–48

location of staff, 245

New Deal and, 253

origins of, 241

pay discrepancy by race, 242, 244–45

purpose of, 239

staff of, in 1914, 243

white support, reliance on, 248, 249–50

during World War I, 247

Arkansas Association of Colored Women, 263

Arkansas Conference of Social Work, 148

Arkansas Democratic Central Committee, 115, 117

Arkansas Democratic Women’s Clubs, 112

Arkansas Education Commission, 161

Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee, 112

Arkansas Eugenics Association (AEA): community support for, 140–41

founding of, 138–39

legislation and, 144–45

Little Rock Birth Control Clinic and, 141–43

name changed to Planned Parenthood Association of Arkansas, 148

respectability and, 139–40, 146. See also Cornish, Hilda Kahlert

Arkansas Federation of Women’s Clubs, 112, 136, 168

Arkansas Folklore Society, 287, 290–91

Arkansas League of Women Voters, 112

Arkansas Medical Society, 146, 148–50

Arkansas Negro Democratic Association, 125

Arkansas Negro State Farmers’ Association, 247

Arkansas Post, 11, 17–19,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Women in Early Frontier Arkansas : “They Did All the Work except Hunting”
• Bondwomen on Arkansas’s Cotton Frontier : Migration, Labor, Family, and Resistance among an Exploited Class
• Amanda Trulock (1811–1891) : Yankee Mistress of the Old South
• Women of the Ozarks in the Civil War : “I Fear We Will See Hard Times”
• Freda Hogan (1892–1988) : A Socialist Woman in Huntington, Arkansas
• Senator Hattie Caraway (1878–1950) : A Southern Stealth Feminist and Enigmatic Liberal
• Hilda Kahlert Cornish (1878–1965) : A Community Volunteer and Civic Leader: The Birth Control Movement in Arkansas
• Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) : Seventy-Five Years of Social Activism in Arkansas
• Sue Cowan Morris (1910–1994) : An Educator and the Little Rock, Arkansas, Classroom Teachers’ Salary Equalization Suit
• Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1913?–1999) : The Quest for Justice
• Edith Mae Irby Jones (1927–) : “Brilliant . . . Black Pilgrim, Proud Pioneer” and the Integration of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine
• Mary L. Ray (1880?–1934) : Arkansas’s Negro Extension Worker
• Dr. Mamie Katherine Phipps Clark (1917–1983) : American Psychologist and Arkansas Native
• Mary Sybil Kidd Maynard Lewis (1897–1941) : “I’m from the South and I’ve Got Plenty of Rhythm”
• Mary Celestia Parler (1904–1981) : Folklorist and Teacher
• Contributors
• Index