Vol. 4 No. 4 - Winter 1976

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Generations: Women in the South

• Letters from our Readers

  2

• Blood Knowledge

  poem by Joy Elvey Lamm

  3

• The Fourth Generation of Proud Shoes

  Pauli Murray

  4

• Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement

  Sara Evans

  10

• "We Started from Different Ends of the Spectrum"

  Cynthia Washington

  14

• "If It was Anything for Justice"

  interview with Sallie Mae Hadnott by Margaret Rose Gladney

  19

• The True Southern Belle

  poem by Virginia Rudder

  23

• Quilting Women: "Rather Quilt than Eat, Almost"

  Jennifer Miller

  24

• Magnolias Grow in Dirt

  Rayna Green

  29

• Mountain Women

  poems by Lee Howard

  34

• Paralyzed: A True Story

  Lee Smith

  36

• Kalanchoe Pinnata

  poem by Jeanne Ormond

  42

• Lilian Smith: Reflections on Race and Sex

  Jo Ann Robinson

  43

• On Women's Autobiography

  Lillian Smith

  48

• A Second Open Letter to Southern White Women

  Anne Braden

  50

• Women and Lynching

  Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

  53

• Rape Law: A Case Study

  Kathy Gleason with Sean Devereux

  55

• Photographic Portrait of Southern Women

  58

• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

  Alice Walker

  60

• That Civilizing Spirit

  Ellen Stein

  65

• The Southern Summer School for Women Workers

  Mary Frederickson

  70

• "It's Something Inside You"

  interview with Anna Mae Dickson by Wendy Watriss

  76

• Right to Life: The Southern Strategy

  Priscilla Parish Williams

  82

• The Lonesomes Ain't No Spring Picnic

  Birthalene Miller

  86

• Grandmother...and Afterplay

  poems by Lee Robinson

  91

• Hazel and Alice: Custom Made Woman Blues

  Len Stanley

  92

• Varieties of Southern Women

  John Florin

  95

• Women in the South: A Bibliography

  98

• Book Reviews

  104

• Lest We Forget

  poem by Ann Deagon

  111

• Potter

  poem by Jeanie Thompson

  113

• Judgment

  poem by Virginia Rudder

  115

• Pictures from A Wedding Book

  poem by Lee M. Robinson

  116

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