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The Southern Women Legislators Collection is open for research. This collection is stored at an off-site facility. Researchers interested in using this collection must contact Archives and Special Collections at least two business days in advance of their planned visit.
Abstract: This collection contains information on women in southern state legislatures (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) gathered by Joanne V. Hawks and Carolyn Ellis. The records include secondary biographical information, newspaper clippings, political ephemera, completed questionnaires, correspondence, and oral interviews on cassette tapes with occasional transcripts.
Joanne V. Hawks & Carolyn Ellis donated the Southern Women Legislators Collection in 1998.
Lisa Speer processed the collection soon after receipt. Political Papers Archivist Leigh McWhite revised the finding aid in 2008 and again in July 2009. Jason Kovari encoded the online finding aid, 16 July 2009.
In 2010-2011, a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services enabled the archive to preserve and digitize all the recordings in the Southern Women Legislators Collection. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed as part of this project do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Joanne V. Hawks served as the last Dean of Women at the University of Mississippi between 1972 and 1981 and became the first director of the university's Sarah Isom Center for Women (1981 through 1998). Carolyn Ellis was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi Law School at the time this collection was compiled. As Carolyn Ellis Staton, she became Provost of the university in 1999. Hawks & Ellis received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the role of women in southern state legislatures. They coauthored or individually wrote several articles describing the results of their analyses.
Mary Caroline Ellis & Joanne V. Hawks, "Ladies in the Gentleman's Club: South Carolina Women Legislators, 1928-1984" Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (1986), pp. 17-32.
________________________________, "Creating a Different Pattern: Florida's Women Legislators, 1928-1986" Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. 66 No. 1 (1987), pp. 68-83.
Joanne V. Hawks, M. Carolyn Ellis, & J. Byron Morris, "Women in the Mississippi Legislature (1924-1981)" Journal of Mississippi History Vol. 43 No. 4 (November 1981), pp. 266-293.
Joanne V. Hawks, "Like Mother, Like Daughter: Nellie Nugent Somerville and Lucy Somerville Howorth" Journal of Mississippi History Vol. 45 No. 2 (1983), pp. 116-128.
______________, "A Select Few: Alabama's Women Legislators, 1922-1983" Alabama Review Vol. 38 No. 3 (1985), pp. 175-201.
______________, "A Challenge to Racism and Sexism: Black Women in Southern Legislatures, 1965-1986" Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women Vol. 5 No. 2 (1988), pp. 20-23.
______________, "Stepping out of the Shadows into Politics: Women in the Alabama Legislature, 1922-1990" in Stepping out of the Shadows: Alabama Women, 1819-1990 edited by Mary Martha Thomas (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995), pp. 154-175.
The files of the Southern Women Legislators Collection are grouped first by state and then organized alphabetically by the name of individual legislators. Most state files also possess several files containing general information. The files of individual legislators contain secondary biographical information, newspaper clippings, political ephemera, completed questionnaires, and correspondence.
For preservation reasons, access to the cassette tapes stored in boxes 15 and 16 is restricted. Researchers may access their digital counterparts in the Southern Women Legislators Digital Collection at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/swl. Please note that although descriptions for all of the collection’s recordings are available to anyone on the internet, copyright concerns dictate that researchers may only access the recordings via onsite computer terminals in the J.D. Williams Library.
Folder 7.9 Mrs. John S. Lewis, Jr.
Note: For preservation reasons, access to the cassette tapes stored in boxes 15 and 16 is restricted. Researchers may access their digital counterparts in the Southern Women Legislators Digital Collection at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/swl. Please note that although descriptions for all of the collection’s recordings are available to anyone on the internet, copyright concerns dictate that researchers may only access the recordings via onsite computer terminals in the J.D. Williams Library.
Box 15 Cassette 1. Side A: Mary Jane Bode of Texas (19 March 1986). Side B: Bode interview continued.
Cassette 2. Side A: Senator Eddie Bernice Johnson (11 May 1987). Side B: Representative Senfronia Thompson of Texas (11 May 1987).
Cassette 3. Side A: Mary Zoghby of Alabama (8 August 1983). Side B: Zoghby interview continued.
Cassette 4: Side A: Representative Irma Rangel of Texas (12 May 1987).
Cassette 5. Side A: Marilyn Bissell of North Carolina (13 November 1986). Side B: Bissell interview continued.
Cassette 6. Side A: Representative Irma Hunter Brown of Arkansas (22 February 1985). Side B: Brown interview continued.
Cassette 7. Side A: Representative Peggy Long Hartness of Arkansas (21 February 1985).
Cassette 8. Side A: Carolyn E. Frederick of South Carolina (29 January 1983). Side B: Frederick interview continued.
Cassette 9. Side A: Carolyn Frederick interview continued. Side B: Frederick interview continued.
Cassette 10. Side A: Mary A. Anderson of Tennessee (7 May 1985). Side B: Anderson interview continued.
Cassette 11. Side A: Joyce Hearn of South Carolina (27 January 1983).
Cassette 12. Side A: Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas (18 March 1986).
Cassette 13. Side A: Mary Marshall of Virginia (11 February 1987). Side B: Marshall interview continued with comments by Shirley Taft, state president of the League of Women Voters.
Cassette 14. Side A: Irene Rudnick of South Carolina (27 January 1983). Side B: Rudnick interview continued.
Cassette 15. Side A: Jean Toal of South Carolina (27 January 1983). Side B: Toal interview continued.
Cassette 16. Side A: Margaret Keesee Forrester of North Carolina (12 June 1985). Side B: Keesee Forrester interview continued.
Cassette 17. Side A: Dr. Yvonne Kennedy of Alabama (9 August 1983).
Cassette 18. Side A: Representative Ernestine Glossbrenner of Texas (11 May 1987). Side B: Representative Wilhelmina Delco of Texas (12 May 1987).
Cassette 19. Side A: Ann Bedsole of Alabama (8 August 1983). Side B: Bedsole interview continued.
Cassette 20. Side A: Representative Shelby Dean Ward of Alabama (13 November 1983).
Cassette 21. Side A: Sarah Weddington of Texas (26 March 1986).
Cassette 22. Side A: Representative Shirley Duer of Tennessee (7 May 1985).
Cassette 23. Side A: Senator Helen Marvin of North Carolina (10 June 1985). Side B: Marvin interview continued.
Cassette 24. Side A: Senator Anna Belle Clement O’Brien of Tennessee (7 May 1985).
Cassette 25. Side A: Representative Elaine Gordon of Florida (6 May 1986). Side B: Gordon interview continued.
Cassette 26. Side A: Representative Jo Graham Foster of North Carolina (12 June 1985).
Cassette 27. Side A: Senator Betty Andujar of Texas (17 March 1986).
Cassette 28. Side A: Senator Carrie Meek of Florida (6 May 1986).
Cassette 29. Side A: Representative Ruth C. Montgomery of Tennessee (7 May 1985). Side B: Dorothy L. Brown of Tennessee (7 May 1985).
Cassette 30. Side A: Representative Cathey Steinberg of Georgia (8 August 1984). Side B: Steinberg interview continued.
Cassette 31. Side A: Sundra Escott of Alabama (4 August 1983). Side B: Escott interview continued.
Cassette 32. Side A: Representative Helen Gordon Davis of Florida (7 May 1986). Side B: Davis interview continued.
Cassette 33. Side A: Representative Betty Easley of Florida (7 May 1986). Side B: Beth Johnson of Florida (7 May 1987).
Cassette 34. Side A: Senator Toni Jennings of Florida (7 May 1986).
Cassette 35. Side A: Louphenia Thomas of Alabama (4 August 1983). Side B: Jere Thornton of Alabama (4 August 1983).
Cassette 36. Side A: Allen Morris, Clerk of the Florida House (7 May 1986).
Box 16 Cassette 37. Side A: Jane Robinson of Florida (8 May 1986). Side B: Robinson interview continued.
Cassette 38. Side A: Representative Anita Hill of Texas (17 March 1986).
Cassette 39. Side A: Nancy Chase of North Carolina (13 June 1985). Side B: Chase interview continued.
Cassette 40. Side A: Louise Brennan of North Carolina (14 November 1986). Side B: Brennan interview continued.
Cassette 41. Side A: Eleanor Sheppard of Virginia (10 February 1987). Side B: Gladys Keating of Virginia (11 February 1987).
Cassette 42. Side A: Betsy Cochrane of North Carolina (12 June 1985). Side B: Representative Bertha Holt of North Carolina (12 June 1985). See also Cassette 44.
Cassette 43. Side A: Elizabeth Patterson of South Carolina (27 January 1983).
Cassette 44. Side A: Representative Annie B. Kennedy of North Carolina (11 June 1985). Side B: Bertha Holt interview continued from Cassette 42.
Cassette 45. Side A: Representative Betty Jo Williams of Georgia (8 August 1984). Side B: Representative Barbara Couch of Georgia (9 August 1984). See also Cassette 46.
Cassette 46. Side A: Barbara Couch interview continued from Cassette 35.
Cassette 47. Side A: Representative Betty J. Clark of Georgia (7 August 1984). Side B: Clark interview continued.
Cassette 48. Side A: Eleanor Richardson of Georgia (7 August 1984).
Cassette 49. Side A: Senator Wilma Woodard of North Carolina (12 June 1985).
Cassette 50. Side A: Representative Grace Hamilton of Georgia (8 August 1984). Side B: Hamilton interview continued.
Cassette 51. Side A: Representative Debra Danbury of Texas (14 November 1985). Side B: Danbury interview continued.

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