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Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900. By Kate Cote Gillin. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. x, 170. $34.95.) This is a [...]

Describes the involvement of Blacks in the American Missionary Association's attempts in the 1860s to educate and elevate former slaves. Chronicles Black teachers' enthusiasm and devotion despite racism within and without the organization, in which Blacks were kept in lower positions and the question of integrated housing was especially controversial. (RDN)

Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do. By Charles W. Wadelington and Richard F. Knapp. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North [...]

Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. By Canter Brown Jr. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c.1998. Pp. xvi, 252. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8173-0916-0; cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-8173-0915-2.) Historians have [...]

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South. By Tammy Evans. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xi, 173. $34.95.) The author of this [...]

Reviews the essay `African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender,' edited by Hans A. Baer and Yvonne Jones as found in the book `Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 25.