Jacquelyn dowd hall biography books

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall grew up in a small town in Oklahoma,where the South meets the West. In college in Memphis and then graduate school in New York, she came of age with the civil rights and women's movements ofthe1960s and 1970s.

She has been - at some level - thinking about the women or at least the kinds of women who populate Sisters and Rebels for most of her writing and teaching career.

She stumbled on Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's autobiography while writing her first book.

As founding director of the University of North Carolina's Southern Oral History Program, she learned that Katharine was only one of three fascinating sisters, each of whom grappled with a family legacy of slaveholding in which devotion to white supremacy and veneration of the Confederacy went hand in hand.

The eldest, a true believer, had died ten years before. But Katharine and Grace, who, in her day, ha