Our Minds on Freedom examines the role of women as organizers and leaders in the black struggle for equality in Louisiana. Using gender as a basic organizing principle, in combination with other syste
Ranging from the colonial period to the present, more than 20 biographical essays provide a window into the social, cultural and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Simultaneous. (Biograp
Highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, s