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Battling Nell the life of southern journalist Cornelia Battle Lewis, 1893-1956 Cover Image

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Battling Nell the life of southern journalist Cornelia Battle Lewis, 1893-1956

Summary: 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: 9780807134559 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0807134554 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780807134559 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.