African-American Women Workers' Protest in the New South

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-55
Author(s):  
T. W. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
African American Women ◽  
New South ◽  
American Women

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Case
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
New South ◽  
The South ◽  
American Women ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Reconstruction Era

A comparison of two Georgia schools, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, for elite whites, and Spelman Seminary of Atlanta, for African American women, both sought to prepare young women post-Reconstruction era. Founders and faculty strove to mold young women who would demonstrate the modernity and progressiveness of the South, as the schools themselves defined them. Race, class, and ideology shaped the definition and form of secondary education offered at the schools, creating some profound differences, but both emphasized morality and respectability, as both wanted to create women whose exemplary behavior would shield their public activism from reproach. Students and alumnae also sought to use their education to take a more public role in the New South.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Case
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
New South ◽  
American Women ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
White Elite

This chapter provides an overview of two private Georgia schools that sought to prepare young women post-Reconstruction South: Spelman Seminary of Atlanta, educating African American women and girls, and Lucy Cobb Institute, established for young white elite women in Athens. Examining schools for girls run and staffed by women allows us to see how women themselves developed new ideas about women’s responsibilities and duties for their society and their race in the changed circumstances of the New South. It argues that concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the two schools, despite their very different interpretations of what would constitute a desirable New South.

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