Sisters and Rebels

A Struggle for the Soul of America

By: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

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Paperback | 29 December 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Born into a former slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her sisters reinvented themselves as radical thinkers, organizing for racial justice, women's liberation, and labor rights. National Humanities Award-winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall traces the sisters from their childhood in the Deep South to the progressive zeal of the early twentieth century and toward our contemporary moment.

By threading these women's stories through a century of history, social movements, and intellectual debates, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall makes visible forgotten sites of experimentation and creative thinking on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. She demonstrates how the fraught ties of sisterhood were tested and frayed as each sister struggled, albeit in radically different ways, to reinvent herself as a modern woman, grapple with a legacy of racism, and remake the South as a place to call home.

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At a time when millions hunger for hope that a better America is possible, one of our wisest historians uncovers a past we urgently need: of a left feminism organic to the South, forged through rebellion against the dehumanizing treatment of African Americans and buoyed by the Protestant social gospel and the struggles of working men and women. With page after page of surprises conveyed in crystalline prose, Sisters and Rebels recovers a world that was eclipsed by McCarthyism to show us who we can become. Centering on women who gave each other courage, Jacquelyn Hall offers unforgettable insights into how we all might manage to get free.--Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains, finalist for the National Book Award
The culmination of decades of research in special collections from the Consumers Union Archive in Yonkers, New York, to the Archives of the Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, Sisters and Rebels traces the fascinating development of female resistance to the lessons of the Confederate home.--Joan Wylie Hall "Southern Register"

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