Talk:Rebecca Latimer Felton

message: Georgiaa did not adopt a Married Women’s Property Act until 1869.see "Woman Suffrage," New Georgia Encyclopedia.  Prior to that time, any property owned by a woman at the time of her marriage, and any property acquired by her during the marriage, belonged to her husband.  Since slavery was abolished in 1865, any slaves would have been owned solely by Mrs. Felton’s husband.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexander Springstea (talk • contribs) 15:46, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Rebecca Felton Unlikely to Have Owned Slaves

message: "Newspapers reprinted[18] a transcript of Felton's speech to garner support for the Democratic Party (which was at that point in history the Conservative party in America)". This comment is very editorial and not appropriately written for a Wikipedia submission.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by SeeTheWritingOnTheWall (talk • contribs) 03:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racial politics 

message: Most of the article is good, but I'm going to take out the section on "political views." It reads like something a Northerner put in to make fun of Southerners. It is based on only one source, and its length and placement up front - before basic biographical information - suggests someone has an agenda to push about this relatively obscure and unimportant person. She was a U.S. Senator for one day, in 1922, so her opinions about local events from a hundred years ago are irrelevant now.Catherinejarvis (talk) 22:49, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Catherinejarvis  perhaps  should explain a little more about her own anti-Yankee or other  biases. She seems unaware that Felton was quite negative about blacks in politics. Felton is famous primarily for her political views and they of course need to be covered.  The WIKI rules are pretty clear about not erasing fully  sourced scholarly material. In this case Litwack's expertise has been certified by his winning America's top awards for history writing (He won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize ) ... and there is a second historian who also gets erased. Rjensen (talk) 23:41, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Felton was a major political and reform leader in Georgia for many years and certainly deserves an article. (she is given extensive coverage is standard  histories of Georgia like that of Numan Bartley (1983) She  was one of the best influential women leader in the south for decades according to Notable American Women (1971) vol 1 pp 606-7; Bartley reports that by 1915 she "was championing a lengthy feminist program that ranged from prohibition to equal pay for equal work." (p 123).  The section in question describes -- usually in her own words-- her views on a major issue of the day that she lectured and wrote about: race relations. There is no "smear" involve; her position is accurately described-- she expressed views that as Catherinejarvis suggests were very widely held. Rjensen (talk) 21:42, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slanted section of article 

message: An IP is repeatedly altering the section describing the subject's views on the unjustified lynching of Sam Hose to imply that he truly did commited the crimes he was accused of, which led to his lynching, despite the source used saying those were simply accusations that led to the death and were perpetuated. The reverts also remove the description of his murder and the fact his body parts were sold as souvenirs, despite rollbacks from other users like . Can you explain to me why you're doing this? 2603:8080:F600:27A2:6C94:8FC0:CC79:265A (talk) 19:02, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Same Hose Section 

message: The current Wikipedia entry, as well as many other secondary sources, incorrectly date Felton's infamous Tybee speech as August 11, 1898. In fact, it was delivered on August 11, 1897, in Tybee, Georgia. A version of it again appeared in newspapers in 1898, which prompted further strong responses from the public. 
As to the 1897 date being correct, see such news reports and transcripts appearing in the The Atlanta Journal (August 12, 1897);  The Age Herald   [Birmingham, Alabama] (August 14, 1897); and The Atlanta Constitution (August 20, 1897). As to the speech being reprinted and updated in late 1898, "nearly two years" after being delivered at Tybee, see, for example: The Morning News [Savannah, Georgia] (November 16, 1898)  and The North Carolinian [Raleigh] (November 17, 1898).
Numerous authoritative secondary sources correctly report the date of the Tybee speech as occurring in 1897. For example:  
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-nations-first-woman-senator-was-a-virulent-white-supremacist-180981150/
https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/brearley_margaret_e_201008_ma.pdf
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/senate-stories/rebecca-felton-and-one-hundred-years-of-women-senators.htm
https://history.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/assets/News_Images/racism_history_profession.pdf
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-137-05915-4_11
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5743&context=facpubs
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3593&context=dissertations_2
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674893313  [page 411] Don Columbia (talk) 13:55, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Infamous Tybee Speech