South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women:  Their Lives and Times)
"South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times—Volume 2brings together distinguished historians who vividly recapture representative black and white South Carolina women. The articles are lively and the editors ground them in deep historical context that belies any notion of a stagnant state from Reconstruction to World War II. Read any one of these essays and you will want to read them all."—Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, Yale University"Charting women’s social activism from the Civil Wars years until the eve of World War II, the compelling essays inSouth Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times—Volume 2, are long overdue. The women profiled in these pages were involved in concerns as diverse as freedmen’s education and woman suffrage, historic preservation and medical care. Through their initiatives, they transformed South Carolina and, at the same time, did much to expand the opportunities and possibilities for the women who came after them."—Bernard E. Powers Jr., author ofBlack Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885