The southern elite and social change
Subtitle: essays in honor of Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
By: edited by Randy Finley and Thomas A. DeBlack ; with a foreword by James C. Cobb.
Contributors: Finley, Randy, 1954-; DeBlack, Thomas A., 1951-
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences) -- Southern States -- History.; Social change -- Southern States -- History.; Southern States -- Civilization.; Southern States -- Social conditions.; Southern States -- Politics and government.; Southern States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: In the shadow of the revolution : Savannah's first generation of free African American elite in the new republic, 1790-1830 / Whittington B. Johnson; title: "A model man of Chicot County" : Lycurgus Johnson and social change / Thomas A. DeBlack; title: "I go to set the captives free" : the activism of Richard Harvey Cain, nationalist churchman and Reconstruction-era leader / Bernard E. Powers, Jr.; title: "This dreadful whirlpool" of Civil War : Edward W. Gantt and the quest for distinction / Randy Finley; title: James Carroll Napier (1845-1940) : from plantation to the city / Bobby L. Lovett; title: Robert E. Lee Wilson and the making of a post-Civil War plantation / Jeannie M. Whayne; title: Reward for party service : Emily Newell Blair and political patronage in the New Deal / Virginia Laas; title: "A generous and exemplary womanhood" : Hattie Rutherford Watson and NYA Camp Bethune in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1937 / Fon Gordon; title: Tufted titans : Dalton, Georgia's carpet elite / Thomas Deaton; title: Sara Alderman Murphy and the Little Rock panel of American women : a prescription to heal the wounds of the Little Rock school crisis / Paula C. Barnes.