Battling Nell - The Life of Southern Journalist Corneila Battle Lewis, 1895-1956

Informationen zum Autor Alexander S. Leidholdt is associate professor of media arts and design at James Madison University. A longtime resident of Virginia, he is also the author of Standing Before the Shouting Mob: Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public-School Integration. Klappentext 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, 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. Battling Nell tells the compelling and ultimately tragic life story of this groundbreaking journalist against the backdrop of the turbulent post-Reconstruction Jim Crow South, and considers the possible reasons for her ideological transformation. Lewis died in 1956. Zusammenfassung A longtime columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer, Cornelia Battle Lewis earned a national reputation in the 1920s and 1930s. In his retelling of her life, Leidholdt chronicles the history of North Carolina from the 1920s to the 1950s, as industrialization and racial integration began to tear at the region's conservative fabric.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander S Leidholdt, Alexander S. Leidholdt
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780807134559
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3455-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Southern Biography (Hardcover); Southern Biography (Hardcover); Southern Biography; Southern Biography Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism