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Louisiana Women

Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

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Pages: 400

Illustrations: 13 b&w images

Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in

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Paperback

Pub Date: 03/15/2016

ISBN: 9-780-8203-4270-2

List Price: $38.95

Hardcover

Pub Date: 03/15/2016

ISBN: 9-780-8203-4269-6

List Price: $120.95

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Pub Date: 03/15/2016

ISBN: 9-780-8203-4903-9

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Louisiana Women

Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

More life-and-times histories of women from Louisiana

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Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state as well as showcases the actions and activities of women who greatly affected the history of Louisiana in profound and interesting ways.

These essays on women at the forefront of Louisiana and national events include information about Sarah Morgan; Janet Mary Riley; Lindy Claiborne Boggs; Lucy Alston Pirrie; Appoline Patout, Mary Ann Patout, and Ida Patout Burns; Lulu White; Neda Jurisich, Eva Vujnovich, and Mary Jane Munsterman Tesvich; Carmelite “Cammie” Garrett Henry; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Coralie Guarino Davis; Lucinda Williams; Rebecca Wells; Phoebe Bryant Hunter; Cora Allen; Sarah Towles Reed; and Georgia M. Johnson

Contributors: Janet Allured on Janet Mary Riley; Court Carney on Lucinda Williams; Emily Clark on the women from Congo Square in New Orleans; Brittney Cooper on Cora Allen; Mark J. Duvall on Phoebe Bryant Hunter; Lucy Gutman with Shannon Frystack on Carmelite “Cammie” Garrett Henry; Emily Epstein Landau on Lulu White; Hellen S. Lee on Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Leslie Gale Parr on Sarah Towles Reed; Giselle Roberts on Sarah Morgan; Lee Sartain on Georgia M. Johnson; Sara Brooks Sundberg on Lucy Alston Pirrie; Tania Tetlow on Lindy Claiborne Boggs; Susan Tucker on Coralie Guarino Davis; Michael Wade on Appoline Patout, Mary Ann Patout, and Ida Patout Burns; Carolyn E. Ware on Neda Jurisich, Eva Vujnovich, and Mary Jane Munsterman Tesvich; Beth Willinger on the New Orleans Christian Woman’s Exchange; Mary Ann Wilson on Rebecca Wells

Janet Allured

Court Carney

Emily Clark

Mark Duvall

Mary Farmer-Kaiser

Shannon Frystak

Emily Epstein Landau

Hellen Lee

Leslie Gale Parr

Giselle Roberts

Lee Sartain

Sara Brooks Sundberg

Tania Tetlow

Susan Tucker

Michael Wade

Carolyn E. Ware

Beth Willinger

Mary Wilson

Brittney Cooper

Lucy Gutman

About the Author/Editor

Shannon Frystak (Editor)
SHANNON FRYSTAK is an associate professor of history at East Stroudsburg University and author of Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924–1967.

Mary Farmer-Kaiser (Editor)
MARY FARMER-KAISER is a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and author of Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation.