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Battling Nell [electronic resource] : the life of southern journalist Cornelia Battle Lewis, 1893-1956 / Alexander S. Leidholdt.
A longtime columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer, Cornelia Battle Lewis earned a national reputation in the 1920s and 1930s for her courageous advocacy on behalf of women's rights, African Americans, children, and labor unions. Late in her life, however, after fighting mental illness, Lewis reversed many of her stances and railed against the liberalism she had spent her life advancing. In Battling Nell, Alexander S. Leidholdt tells the compelling and ultimately tragic life story of this groundbreaking journalist against the backdrop of the turbulent post-Reconstruction Jim Crow South and.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807136706 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0807136700 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0807134554 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780807134559 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 331 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill.
- Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-320) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- A gilded cage -- Beyond the pale -- A mind of her own -- A knife in the back -- Barbarous Gaston -- In desperation -- "A poor burnt child" -- New battlegrounds -- Fanning the flames -- "With all deliberate speed" -- Conclusion. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Lewis, Nell Battle, 1893-1956. Lewis, Nell Battle, 1893-1956 Women journalists > North Carolina > Biography. Journalists > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
