Finding Aid for the Southern Women Legislators Collection (MUM00422)
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University of Mississippi eGrove Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids Library November 2020 Finding Aid for the Southern Women Legislators Collection (MUM00422) Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids Recommended Citation Southern Women Legislators Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by the Library at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Finding Aid for the Southern Women Legislators Collection (MUM00422) Questions? Contact us! The Southern Women Legislators Collection is open for research. This collection is stored at an off-site facility. Researchers interested in using this collection must contact Archives and Special Collections at least two business days in advance of their planned visit. Finding Aid for the Southern Women Legislators Collection Table of Contents Descriptive Summary Administrative Information Subject Terms Biographical Note Bibliography Scope and Content Note User Information Related Material Arrangement Container List Descriptive Summary Title: Southern Women Legislators Collection Dates: 1900s (bulk 1980-1998) Collector: Hawks, Joanne V. ; Ellis, Carolyn, 1950- Physical Extent: 16 boxes (29 linear feet) Repository: University of Mississippi. Department of Archives and Special Collections. University, MS 38677, USA Identification: MUM00422 Location: Modern Political Archives Language of Material: English Abstract: This collection contains information on women in southern state legislatures (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) gathered by Joanne V. Hawks and Carolyn Ellis. The records include secondary biographical information, newspaper clippings, political ephemera, completed questionnaires, correspondence, and oral interviews on cassette tapes with occasional transcripts. Administrative Information Acquisition Information Joanne V. Hawks & Carolyn Ellis donated the Southern Women Legislators Collection in 1998. Processing Information Lisa Speer processed the collection soon after receipt. Political Papers Archivist Leigh McWhite revised the finding aid in 2008 and again in July 2009. Jason Kovari encoded the online finding aid, 16 July 2009. Revised March 2020 by Abigail Norris. In 2010-2011, a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services enabled the archive to preserve and digitize all the recordings in the Southern Women Legislators Collection. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed as part of this project do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additions No further additions are expected to this collection. Subject Terms Women in politics -- Southern States Women politicians -- Southern States Women legislators -- Alabama Women legislators -- Arkansas Women legislators -- Florida Women legislators -- Georgia Women legislators -- Louisiana Women legislators -- Mississippi Women legislators -- North Carolina Women legislators -- South Carolina Women legislators -- Tennessee Women legislators -- Texas Women legislators -- Virginia Southern States -- Politics and government Formats interviews clippings (information artifacts) ephemera correspondence audiocassettes born digital audio Biographical Note Joanne V. Hawks served as the last Dean of Women at the University of Mississippi between 1972 and 1981 and became the first director of the university's Sarah Isom Center for Women (1981 through 1998). Carolyn Ellis was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi Law School at the time this collection was compiled. As Carolyn Ellis Staton, she became Provost of the university in 1999. Hawks & Ellis received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the role of women in southern state legislatures. They coauthored or individually wrote several articles describing the results of their analyses. Bibliography Mary Caroline Ellis & Joanne V. Hawks, "Ladies in the Gentleman's Club: South Carolina Women Legislators, 1928-1984" Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (1986), pp. 17-32. ________________________________, "Creating a Different Pattern: Florida's Women Legislators, 1928-1986" Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. 66 No. 1 (1987), pp. 68-83. Joanne V. Hawks, M. Carolyn Ellis, & J. Byron Morris, "Women in the Mississippi Legislature (1924-1981)" Journal of Mississippi History Vol. 43 No. 4 (November 1981), pp. 266-293. Joanne V. Hawks, "Like Mother, Like Daughter: Nellie Nugent Somerville and Lucy Somerville Howorth" Journal of Mississippi History Vol. 45 No. 2 (1983), pp. 116-128. ______________, "A Select Few: Alabama's Women Legislators, 1922-1983" Alabama Review Vol. 38 No. 3 (1985), pp. 175-201. ______________, "A Challenge to Racism and Sexism: Black Women in Southern Legislatures, 1965-1986" Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women Vol. 5 No. 2 (1988), pp. 20-23. ______________, "Stepping out of the Shadows into Politics: Women in the Alabama Legislature, 1922-1990" in Stepping out of the Shadows: Alabama Women, 1819-1990 edited by Mary Martha Thomas (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995), pp. 154-175. Scope and Content Note The files of the Southern Women Legislators Collection are grouped first by state and then organized alphabetically by the name of individual legislators. Most state files also possess several files containing general information. The files of individual legislators contain secondary biographical information, newspaper clippings, political ephemera, completed questionnaires, and correspondence. User Information Prefered Citation Southern Women Legislators Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi Access Restrictions The Southern Women Legislators Collection is open for research. This collection is stored at an off-site facility. Researchers interested in using this collection must contact Archives and Special Collections at least two business days in advance of their planned visit. For preservation reasons, access to the cassette tapes stored in boxes 15 and 16 is restricted. Researchers may access their digital counterparts in the Southern Women Legislators Digital Collection. Please note that although descriptions for all of the collection’s recordings are available to anyone on the internet, copyright concerns dictate that researchers may only access the recordings via onsite computer terminals in the J.D. Williams Library. Copyright Restrictions The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement. Related Material Resources at the University of Mississippi Sarah Isom Center Collection contains files related to the NEH grant that funded the research conducted by Hawks and Ellis, as well as other files on women in politics. Finding aid available at: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00689/ League of Women Voters (Mississippi Division) Collection holds the archives for the Mississippi Division as well as many local state chapters. Finding aid available at: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00261/ Lily Thompson Collection contains the papers of Mississippi suffragist Lily Thompson, which includes correspondence and other documents related to the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, Belle Kearney, and Nellie Nugent Somerville. Finding aid available at: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00446/ Arrangement Series I. Alabama Series II. Arkansas Series III. Florida Series IV. Georgia Series V. Louisiana Series VI. Mississippi Series VII. South Carolina & Tennessee Series VIII. Texas Series IX. North Carolina Series X. Virginia Series XI. Cassette Tapes of Oral Interviews Container List Series I. Alabama Folder 1.1 General information on Alabama’s women legislators Folder 1.2 Clippings Folder 1.3 Ann Bedsole Folder 1.4 Kylie Terry Berryman Folder 1.5 June Bugg Folder 1.6 Clara Stone Collins Folder 1.7 Pat Davis Folder 1.8 Sundra Escott Folder 1.9 Jane Gullatt Folder 1.10 Yvonne Kennedy Folder 1.11 Beth Marietta Folder 1.12 Bobbie Will Greene McDowell Folder 1.13 Sybil Pool Folder 1.14 Marilyn Quarles Folder 1.15 Lois Rockhold Folder 1.16 Martha Jo Smith Folder 1.17 Frances Strong Folder 1.18 Louphenia Thomas Folder 1.19 Jarushia Thornton Folder 1.20 Shelby Dean Ward Folder 1.21 Hattie Hooker Wilkins Folder 1.22 Retha Deal Wynot Folder 1.23 Mary S. Zoghby Series II. Arkansas Folder 2.1 General information on Arkansas Women Legislators Folder 2.2 Clippings Folder 2.3 Dorothy M. Allen Folder 2.4 Nancy Crain Balton Folder 2.5 Irma Hunter Brown Folder 2.6 Maude R. Brown Folder 2.7 Helen May Buchanan Folder 2.8 Gloria Burford Cabe Folder 2.9 Charlie Cole Chafin Folder 2.10 Erle Rutherford Chambers Folder 2.11 Ethel Cole Cunningham Folder