Finding Aid for the Southern Women Legislators Collection (MUM00422)

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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

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.

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 2.12 Mattie Hackett Folder 2.13 Peggy Long Hartness Folder 2.14 Frances R. M. J. Hunt Folder 2.15 Ella B. Hurst Folder 2.16 Myra Lee Jones Folder 2.17 Bernice Kizer Folder 2.18 Doris McCastlain Folder 2.19 Florence McGraw McRaven Folder 2.20 Shirley T. Meacham Folder 2.21 Dove Toland Mulkey Folder 2.22 Wanda L. Northcutt Folder 2.23 Willie Oates Folder 2.24 Gladys Oglesby Folder 2.25 Judy Petty Folder 2.26 Carolyn Pollan Folder 2.27 Lera Jeanne Rowlette Folder 2.28 Charlotte T. Schexnayder Folder 2.29 Vada M. Sheid Folder 2.30 Elizabeth H. Thompson Folder 2.31 Mary B. Wigstrand Folder 2.32 Alene Word

Series III. Florida Folder 3.1 General information on Florida Women Legislators Folder 3.2 Information on the Equal Rights Amendment in the Florida Legislature Folder 3.3 Patricia Bailey Folder 3.4 Mary Lou Baker Folder 3.5 Maxine E. Baker Folder 3.6 Virginia Bass Folder 3.7 Elaine Bloom Folder 3.8 Corrine Brown Folder 3.9 Beverly B. Burnsod Folder 3.10 Fran Carlton Folder 3.11 Betty Castor Folder 3.12 Gwen Sawyer Cherry Folder 3.13 Karen Coolman Folder 3.14 Linola Cox Folder 3.15 Helen Gordon Davis Folder 3.16 Betty Easley Folder 3.17 Marilyn B. Evans-Jones Folder 3.18 Mary Figg Folder 3.19 Roberta Fox Folder 3.20 Pat Collier Frank Folder 3.21 Edna Giles Fuller Folder 3.22 Arnhilda Gonzalez-Quevedo Folder 3.23 Elaine Gordon Folder 4.1 Mary R. Grizzle Folder 4.2 Carol Hanson Folder 4.3 Nancy O. Harrington Folder 4.4 Mary Ellen Hawkins Folder 4.5 Frances Loving Irvine Folder 4.6 Toni Jennigns Folder 4.7 Beth Johnson Folder 4.8 Elizabeth Johnson Folder 4.9 Anne MacKenzie Folder 4.10 Mary Ann McKenzie Folder 4.11 Jeanne Malchon Folder 4.12 Gwen Margolis Folder 4.13 Carrie Meek Folder 4.14 Betty Metcalf Folder 4.15 Mary Patton Folder 4.16 Edna Pearce Folder 4.17 Jane W. Robinson Folder 4.18 Irma Rochlin Folder 4.19 Ileana Ros Folder 4.20 Virginia L. Rosen Folder 4.21 Dorothy Eaton Sample Folder 4.22 Deborah Sanderson Folder 4.23 Dixie Sansom Folder 4.24 Peggy Simone Folder 4.25 Mary L. Singleton Folder 4.26 Karen Thurman Folder 4.27 Eleanor Weinstock Folder 4.28 Lori Wilson Folder 4.29 Florida Articles

Series IV. Georgia Folder 5.1 General information on Georgia Legislators Folder 5.2 Peggy Childs’ article, “Women in the Georgia Legislature” Folder 5.3 Betty Aaron Folder 5.4 Alveda King Beal Folder 5.5 Irish Blitch Folder 5.6 Anne Carter Calhoun Folder 5.7 Tassie Kelly Cannon Folder 5.8 Henrietta Canty Folder 5.9 Peggy Childs Folder 5.10 Betty Clark Folder 5.11 Alice Walker Coffin Folder 5.12 Barbara Couch Folder 5.13 Helen Coxon Folder 5.14 Leila Pittman Crowe Folder 5.15 Bev Engram Folder 5.16 Dorothy Felton Folder 5.17 Cynthia Fuller Folder 5.18 Mary Jane Galer Folder 5.19 Mildred Glover Folder 5.20 Ophelia Guerry Folder 5.21 Grace Hamilton Folder 5.22 Janice Horton Folder 5.23 Diane Harvey Johnson Folder 5.24 Jeanette Jamieson Folder 5.25 Suzi Johnson Folder 6.1 Bessie Kempton Folder 6.2 Betty Lowe Folder 6.3 Helen Douglas Mankin Folder 6.4 Love Alexander McDuffie Folder 6.5 Janet Merritt Folder 6.6 Susie Tillman Moore Folder 6.7 Anne Mueller Folder 6.8 Viola Ross Napier Folder 6.9 Suzanne Link Odom Folder 6.10 Lillian Parkman Folder 6.11 Rebecca Rainey Folder 6.12 Eleanor Richardson Folder 6.13 Helen Bomar Selman Folder 6.14 Virginia Shapard Folder 6.15 Georganna Sinkfield Folder 6.16 Earleen Sizemore Folder 6.17 Cathey Steinberg Folder 6.18 Nellie M. Stocks Folder 6.19 Mable Thomas Folder 6.20 Lottie Watkins Folder 6.21 Betty Jo Williams Folder 6.22 Mary Young Folder 6.23 Georgia Legislators; Bills introduced Folder 6.24 Georgia Blue Books

Series V. Louisiana Folder 7.1 Louisiana Legislature Folder 7.2 Mrs. Bland Bruns Folder 7.3 Diane Elizabeth Bajoie Folder 7.4 Evelyn K. Blackmon Folder 7.5 Kathleen Blanco Folder 7.6 Mrs. E. D. Gleason Folder 7.7 Doris Holland Folder 7.8 Louise B. Johnson Folder 7.9 Mrs. John S. Lewis, Jr. Folder 7.10 Mary Landrieu Folder 7.11 Grace Laperouse Folder 7.12 Margaret Lowenthal Folder 7.13 Beatrice H. Moore Folder 7.14 Mrs. Richard S. Parrott Folder 7.15 Irene Jordan Sevier Folder 7.16 Virginia Shehee Folder 7.17 Dorothy M. Taylor Folder 7.18 Mrs. C. W. Thompson Folder 7.19 Lillian Walker Folder 7.20 Louise B. Johnson, Women of the Louisiana Legislature Folder 7.21 Lindig, Path from the Parlor

Series VI. Mississippi Folder 8.1 General information on Mississippi Legislature Folder 8.2 General information on Mississippi legislature Folder 8.3 Mildred Alexander Folder 8.4 Margaret Allen Folder 8.5 Anne Barclift Folder 8.6 Georgia Bennett Folder 8.7 Barbara Blackmon Folder 8.8 Annie Bonds Folder 8.9 Norma Bourdeaux Folder 8.10 Mabel Bruce Folder 8.11 Pauline Clark Folder 8.12 Tillie Clark Folder 8.13 Alyce Clark Folder 8.14 Kay Cobb Folder 8.15 Linda F. Coleman Folder 8.16 Willie Mae Dunaway Folder 8.17 Orene Farese Folder 8.18 Thelma Farr Folder 8.19 Frances Fredericks Folder 8.20 Madge Quin Fugler Folder 8.21 Evelyn Gandy Folder 8.22 Mary Lou Godbold Folder 8.23 Mrs. W. Fletcher Gore Folder 8.24 Otelia Hammond Folder 8.25 Ella Duke Harris Folder 8.26 Lucy Howorth Folder 8.27 Belle Kearney Folder 8.28 Betty Jane Long Folder 9.1 Zilpha Mansell Folder 9.2 Rita Martinson Folder 9.3 Helen Jacobs McDade Folder 9.4 Mary Magruder McGehee Folder 9.5 Jean Muirhead Folder 9.6 Jeffries Nail Folder 9.7 Kathleen O’Fallon Folder 9.8 Alice Snider Phillips Folder 9.9 Amy Tuck Powell Folder 9.10 Zelma Wells Price Folder 9.11 Jesse Reese Folder 9.12 Minnie Lou Robinson Folder 9.13 Frances Savage Folder 9.14 Eloise Scott Folder 9.15 Miriam Q. Simmons Folder 9.16 Gladys Slayden Folder 9.17 Wilma Sledge Folder 9.18 Nellie Nugent Somerville Folder 9.19 Pearl High Stansell Folder 9.20 Louise Steadman Folder 9.21 Mary Ann Stevens Folder 9.22 Margaret Tate Folder 9.23 Mary Frances Terry Folder 9.24 Mildred Topp Folder 9.25 Mynelle Vaiden Folder 9.26 Berta Lee White Folder 9.27 Martha Carole White Folder 9.28 Neita McCargo Winn Folder 9.29 Ellen Woodward Folder 9.30 Barbara Yancy Folder 9.31 Paper on women in Mississippi legislature

Series VII. South Carolina & Tennessee Folder 10.1 General information on South Carolina Legislators Folder 10.2 Jewel Baskins Folder 10.3 Virginia Crocker Folder 10.4 Sylvia K. Dreyfus Folder 10.5 Lois Eargle Folder 10.6 Mary Ellis Folder 10.7 Martha Fitzgerald Folder 10.8 Carolyn E. Frederick Folder 10.9 Juanita Goggins Folder Virginia Gourdin 10.10 Folder Jean Harris 10.11 Folder Joyce C. Hearn 10.12 Folder Harriet Johnson 10.13 Folder Harriet Keyserling 10.14 Folder Thomasine Mason 10.15 Folder Emma Jane McDermott 10.16 Folder Jean Meyers 10.17 Folder Mary Miles 10.18 Folder Donna Moss 10.19 Folder Denny Neilson 10.20 Folder Elizabeth Patterson 10.21 Folder Irene K. Rudnick 10.22 Folder Norma Russell 10.23 Folder Sherry Shealy 10.24 Folder Sara Shelton 10.25 Folder 11.1 Nell Smith Folder 11.2 Ferdinan Stevenson Folder 11.3 Jean Toal Folder 11.4 Ruby Wesson Folder 11.5 Juanita White Folder 11.6 Ruth Williams Folder 11.7 General information on the Tennessee Legislature Folder 11.8 Tommy Agee Folder 11.9 Mary Anderson Folder Sharon Bell 11.10 Folder Dorothy Brown 11.11 Folder Wilma Brown 11.12 Folder Stephanie Chivers 11.13 Folder Sandra Clark 11.14 Folder Anne M. Davis 11.15 Folder Betty Davis 11.16 Folder Lois DeBerry 11.17 Folder Frances Doyle 11.18 Folder Shirley Duer 11.19 Folder Gwen Fleming 11.20 Folder Sarah Ruth Frazier 11.21 Folder Pamela Gaia 11.22 Folder Marion Griffin 11.23 Folder Joyce C. Hassell 11.24 Folder Mabel Williams Hughes 11.25 Folder Mildred Louella Lashlee 11.26 Folder Lizzie Lea Miller 11.27 Folder Ruth C. Montgomery 11.28 Folder Dana Elizabeth Moore 11.29 Folder Anna O’ Brien 11.30 Folder Ruth O’Dell 11.31 Folder Maria Peroules 11.32 Folder Ruth M. Robinson 11.33 Folder Lillian Scott 11.34 Folder Mary Merrill Shadow 11.35 Folder Katherine Shook 11.36 Folder Joan Strong 11.37 Folder Maude Tucker Taylor 11.38 Folder Brenda Kaye Turner 11.39 Folder Karen R. Williams 11.40 Folder Ann Lee Worley 11.41

Series VIII. Texas Folder 12.1 Clippings on women legislators, general Folder 12.2 Timeline Folder 12.3 Photocopied articles on Texas women legislators Folder 12.4 General information on Texas legislature Folder 12.5 Betty Andujar Folder 12.6 Myra D. Banfield Folder 12.7 Anita Blair Folder 12.8 Mary Jane Bode Folder 12.9 Lanell Cofer Folder Neveille H. Colson 12.10 Folder Anne Cooper 12.11 Folder Debra Danburg 12.12 Folder Wilhelmina Delco 12.13 Folder Betty Denton 12.14 Folder Virginia Duff 12.15 Folder Frances Farenthold 12.16 Folder Florence Fenley 12.17 Folder Ray Files Still 12.18 Folder Ernestine Glossbrenner 12.19 Folder Margaret Harris Gordon 12.20 Folder Lena Guerrero 12.21 Folder Dorothy Gillis Gurley 12.22 Folder Sue Hairgrove 12.23 Folder Mrs. A. R. Henderson 12.24 Folder Anita Hill 12.25 Folder Patricia Hill 12.26 Folder Sarah T. Hughes 12.27 Folder Kay Bailey [Hutchinson] 12.28 Folder Maud Isaacks 12.29 Folder Eddie Bernice Johnson 12.30 Folder Barbara Jordan 12.31 Folder Cyndi Taylor Krier 12.32 Folder Susan Gurley McBee 12.33 Folder Nancy McDonald 12.34 Folder Jan McKenna 12.35 Folder Chris Miller 12.36 Folder Helen Moore 12.37 Folder Margie Neal 12.38 Folder Mary Polk 12.39 Folder Irma Rangel 12.40 Folder Phyllis Robinson 12.41 Folder Mrs. Lee J. Roundtree 12.42 Folder Gywn Clarkson Shea 12.43 Folder Mrs. Lacy Stewart 12.44 Folder Mrs. N. R. Strong 12.45 Folder Elizabeth Suiter 12.46 Folder Lou Nelle Sutton 12.47 Folder Senfronia Thompson 12.48 Folder Sarah Weddington 12.49 Folder Edith E. Wilmans 12.50

Series IX. North Carolina Folder 13.1 General information on North Carolina Legislature Folder 13.2 Julia M. Alexander Folder 13.3 Anne E. Bagnal Folder 13.4 Anne Barnes Folder 13.5 Marilyn R. Bissell Folder 13.6 Louisa Brennon Folder 13.7 Mary F. Brumby Folder 13.8 Dorothy R. Burnley Folder 13.9 Nancy Chase Folder Betsy Lane Cochrane 13.10 Folder Marie W. Colton 13.11 Folder Elinor C. Cook 13.12 Folder Ruth E. Cook 13.13 Folder Lillian M. Cover 13.14 Folder Jennie G. E. Craven 13.15 Folder Rachel D. Davis 13.16 Folder Ann Q. Duncan 13.17 Folder Ruth M. Easterling 13.18 Folder Susan G. Ervin 13.19 Folder Theresa H. Esposito 13.20 Folder Martha W. Evans 13.21 Folder Jeannie C. Fenner 13.22 Folder Sue R. Ferguson 13.23 Folder Thelma Fisher 13.24 Folder Tressie P. Fletcher 13.25 Folder Jo Graham Foster 13.26 Folder Charlotte A. Gardner 13.27 Folder Rachel G. Gray 13.28 Folder Pat O. Griffin 13.29 Folder Katherine Anne Hagen-Sebo 13.30 Folder Iona T. Hargett 13.31 Folder Margaret B. Hayden 13.32 Folder Bertha Merrill Holt 13.33 Folder Dorothy R. Huffman 13.34 Folder Wanda Hunt 13.35 Folder Wilda H. Hurst 13.36 Folder Mrs. Charles H. Hutchins 13.37 Folder Mary Jarrell 13.38 Folder Nancy H. Jones 13.39 Folder Margaret P. Keesee 13.40 Folder Annie B. Kennedy 13.41 Folder Edith L. Lutz 13.42 Folder Helen Rhyne Marvin 13.43 Folder Carolyn W. Mathis 13.44 Folder Lillie M. Mebane 13.45 Folder Gertrude D. McKee 13.46 Folder Carrie L. McLean 13.47 Folder Mary C. Nesbitt 13.48 Folder Geraldine Nielson 13.49 Folder Mary H. Odom 13.50 Folder Mary N. Pegg 13.51 Folder Mrs. John M. Phelps 13.52 Folder Janet W. Pickler 13.53 Folder Frances C. Ramsey 13.54 Folder Grace T. Rodendough 13.55 Folder Frances E. Setzer 13.56 Folder Mary P. Seymour 13.57 Folder Margaret Stamey 13.58 Folder Exum Clement Stafford 13.59 Folder Patricia D. Stanford 13.60 Folder Lura S. Talley 13.61 Folder Margaret Tennille 13.62 Folder Betty D. Thomas 13.63 Folder Frances F. Tomlin 13.64 Folder Lois S. Walker 13.65 Folder Alfreda Webb 13.66 Folder Elizabeth A. Wilkie 13.67 Folder Myrtle E. Wiseman 13.68 Folder Betty H. Wiser 13.69 Folder Wilma Woodard 13.70

Series X. Virginia Folder 14.1 General information on Virginia legislature Folder 14.2 Inez McGraw Baker Folder 14.3 Sallie C. Cook Booker Folder 14.4 Vinnie Caldwell Folder 14.5 Gwendolyn F. Cody Folder 14.6 Shirley F. Cooper Folder 14.7 Sarah Lee Fain Folder 14.8 Marion Gibbs Galland Folder 14.9 Charlotte Caldwell Giesein Folder Evelyn Momsen Hailey 14.10 Folder Edythe Colton Harrison 14.11 Folder Elise Brookfield Heinz 14.12 Folder Helen Ruth Henderson 14.13 Folder Helen Timmons Henderson 14.14 Folder Joan Shepherd Jones 14.15 Folder Gladys Brown Keating 14.16 Folder Mary Aydelotte Marshall 14.17 Folder Yvonne B. Miller 14.18 Folder Joan H. Munford 14.19 Folder Dorothy S. McDiarmid 14.20 Folder Phoebe Orebaugh 14.21 Folder Bonnie Lineweaver Paul 14.22 Folder Eva F. Scott 14.23 Folder Eleanor Parker Sheppard 14.24 Folder Julie L. Smith 14.25 Folder Nora A. Squyres 14.26 Folder Kathryn Haesler Stone 14.27 Folder Mary Sue Terry 14.28 Folder Marian A. VanLandingham 14.29 Folder Vivian E. Watts 14.30 Folder Emma Lee White 14.31 Folder General information on Virginia Legislature 14.32

Series XI. Cassette Tapes of Oral Interviews Note: 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. Box 15 Cassette 1. Side A: Mary Jane Bode of Texas (19 March 1986). Side B: Bode interview continued. Cassette 2. Side A: Senator Eddie Bernice Johnson (11 May 1987). Side B: Representative Senfronia Thompson of Texas (11 May 1987). Cassette 3. Side A: Mary Zoghby of Alabama (8 August 1983). Side B: Zoghby interview continued. Cassette 4: Side A: Representative Irma Rangel of Texas (12 May 1987). Cassette 5. Side A: Marilyn Bissell of North Carolina (13 November 1986). Side B: Bissell interview continued. Cassette 6. Side A: Representative Irma Hunter Brown of Arkansas (22 February 1985). Side B: Brown interview continued. Cassette 7. Side A: Representative Peggy Long Hartness of Arkansas (21 February 1985). Cassette 8. Side A: Carolyn E. Frederick of South Carolina (29 January 1983). Side B: Frederick interview continued. Cassette 9. Side A: Carolyn Frederick interview continued. Side B: Frederick interview continued. Cassette 10. Side A: Mary A. Anderson of Tennessee (7 May 1985). Side B: Anderson interview continued. Cassette 11. Side A: Joyce Hearn of South Carolina (27 January 1983). Cassette 12. Side A: Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas (18 March 1986). Cassette 13. Side A: Mary Marshall of Virginia (11 February 1987). Side B: Marshall interview continued with comments by Shirley Taft, state president of the League of Women Voters. Cassette 14. Side A: Irene Rudnick of South Carolina (27 January 1983). Side B: Rudnick interview continued. Cassette 15. Side A: Jean Toal of South Carolina (27 January 1983). Side B: Toal interview continued. Cassette 16. Side A: Margaret Keesee Forrester of North Carolina (12 June 1985). Side B: Keesee Forrester interview continued. Cassette 17. Side A: Dr. Yvonne Kennedy of Alabama (9 August 1983). Cassette 18. Side A: Representative Ernestine Glossbrenner of Texas (11 May 1987). Side B: Representative Wilhelmina Delco of Texas (12 May 1987). Cassette 19. Side A: Ann Bedsole of Alabama (8 August 1983). Side B: Bedsole interview continued. Cassette 20. Side A: Representative Shelby Dean Ward of Alabama (13 November 1983). Cassette 21. Side A: Sarah Weddington of Texas (26 March 1986). Cassette 22. Side A: Representative Shirley Duer of Tennessee (7 May 1985). Cassette 23. Side A: Senator Helen Marvin of North Carolina (10 June 1985). Side B: Marvin interview continued. Cassette 24. Side A: Senator Anna Belle Clement O’Brien of Tennessee (7 May 1985). Cassette 25. Side A: Representative Elaine Gordon of Florida (6 May 1986). Side B: Gordon interview continued. Cassette 26. Side A: Representative Jo Graham Foster of North Carolina (12 June 1985). Cassette 27. Side A: Senator Betty Andujar of Texas (17 March 1986). Cassette 28. Side A: Senator Carrie Meek of Florida (6 May 1986). Cassette 29. Side A: Representative Ruth C. Montgomery of Tennessee (7 May 1985). Side B: Dorothy L. Brown of Tennessee (7 May 1985). Cassette 30. Side A: Representative Cathey Steinberg of Georgia (8 August 1984). Side B: Steinberg interview continued. Cassette 31. Side A: Sundra Escott of Alabama (4 August 1983). Side B: Escott interview continued. Cassette 32. Side A: Representative Helen Gordon Davis of Florida (7 May 1986). Side B: Davis interview continued. Cassette 33. Side A: Representative Betty Easley of Florida (7 May 1986). Side B: Beth Johnson of Florida (7 May 1987). Cassette 34. Side A: Senator Toni Jennings of Florida (7 May 1986). Cassette 35. Side A: Louphenia Thomas of Alabama (4 August 1983). Side B: Jere Thornton of Alabama (4 August 1983). Cassette 36. Side A: Allen Morris, Clerk of the Florida House (7 May 1986). Box 16 Cassette 37. Side A: Jane Robinson of Florida (8 May 1986). Side B: Robinson interview continued. Cassette 38. Side A: Representative Anita Hill of Texas (17 March 1986). Cassette 39. Side A: Nancy Chase of North Carolina (13 June 1985). Side B: Chase interview continued. Cassette 40. Side A: Louise Brennan of North Carolina (14 November 1986). Side B: Brennan interview continued. Cassette 41. Side A: Eleanor Sheppard of Virginia (10 February 1987). Side B: Gladys Keating of Virginia (11 February 1987). Cassette 42. Side A: Betsy Cochrane of North Carolina (12 June 1985). Side B: Representative Bertha Holt of North Carolina (12 June 1985). See also Cassette 44. Cassette 43. Side A: Elizabeth Patterson of South Carolina (27 January 1983). Cassette 44. Side A: Representative Annie B. Kennedy of North Carolina (11 June 1985). Side B: Bertha Holt interview continued from Cassette 42. Cassette 45. Side A: Representative Betty Jo Williams of Georgia (8 August 1984). Side B: Representative Barbara Couch of Georgia (9 August 1984). See also Cassette 46. Cassette 46. Side A: Barbara Couch interview continued from Cassette 35. Cassette 47. Side A: Representative Betty J. Clark of Georgia (7 August 1984). Side B: Clark interview continued. Cassette 48. Side A: Eleanor Richardson of Georgia (7 August 1984). Cassette 49. Side A: Senator Wilma Woodard of North Carolina (12 June 1985). Cassette 50. Side A: Representative Grace Hamilton of Georgia (8 August 1984). Side B: Hamilton interview continued. Cassette 51. Side A: Representative Debra Danbury of Texas (14 November 1985). Side B: Danbury interview continued.