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Lucy Somerville Howorth : New Deal lawyer, politician, and feminist from the South
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- Creator
- Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain ; with a foreword by Anne Firor Scott
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- Language
- English
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
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- xviii, 234 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807131336, 0807131334
- OCLC
- ocm60826509
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
- Girlhood in Greenville -- "A whole human being," 1912-1922 -- "Hustling in the law," 1922-1927 -- Howorth and Howorth, Attorneys-at-Law, 1928-1931 -- "I have a few things to say" : the Mississippi Legislature, 1932-1934 -- A watchdog for women, 1935-1946 -- "I glory in being a feminist," 1947-1954 -- "Just being Cleveland folks" : retirement after 1957 -- "Nothing like living a long time" : the last years
Subjects
- Howorth, Lucy Somerville, 1895-1997.
- Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives -- Biography.
- American Association of University Women -- Biography.
- Women legislators -- Mississippi -- Biography.
- Legislators -- Mississippi -- Biography.
- Women lawyers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
- Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Feminists -- Mississippi -- Biography.