Mississippi Women - Swain, Martha H. a Payne, Elizabeth Anne a Spruill, Marjorie Julian

These biographies aim to gain Mississippi's womens their place in its written record. The women whose stories are told here range from Felicite Girodeau, who was both a person of colour and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who ""mothered"" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta.