Streitmatter, Raising Her Voice - African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History; Wolfe, Daughters Of Canaan - A Saga Of Southern Women

Abstract

The continuing growth and success of Women's history has seen the field move into two areas that heretofore have been seriously neglected: that of African American women and black and white women of the South. Given that African American history on the one hand and the history of women on the other has pretty much succeeded in changing the ways in which we teach, interpret, and write about American history, it seems more than overdue that specific studies of southern women, in general, and African American women, in particular, be undertaken in these scholarly areas.