Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Book Overview

Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters sought their fortunes in the North, reinventing themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation's attention to issues of region, race, and labor. National Humanities Award-winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393358569
• ISBN13: 9780393358568
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Three Southern Sisters Voyage 20th Century - Radicalism to Reaction

Hall's compelling and detailed study of 3sisters from Deep South shows impact of increasing educational availability to women, divergent paths in 30s from Motherhood to novelist to scholar-activist, adoption of depression era radicalism by two, a contemporary lesbian life by one, and reaction to 30s radicalism by another in face of McCarthy era. All changes and challenges shaped by inter-racialism of YWCA, especially in case of Katherine, who retired to N Carolina and ended life there with her lesbian companion of final years, making her and her archive at UNCs Southern Collection available to famed UNC Womens Oral Historian Hall, and her gifted lucid exposition of three lives!! A history of the 20th Century in Three Womens divergent female paths through it! Howard Romaine