Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1086722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nan Elizabeth Woodruff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nan Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodruff |
| SIGNATURE | WOODRUFF N E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mississippi's Black Cotton
Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II
Françoise N. Hamlin's study of the civil rights movement in Clarksdale, Mississippi, is a beautifully written book, strong in its ability to capture the different organizing strategies pursued in one community. In Clarksdale, readers see how personality, class, sexism, and gender shaped local organizing. Hamlin uses the lives of two leaders: Aaron Henry, the well-known president of the state's first chapter of the National Association for the Adv…
Empire, Race, and Labor: Empire, Race, and Labor
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Book Review| September 01 2012 The Lost Promise of Civil Rights The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010 376 pp., $18.95 (paper) Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (3): 106–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1599684 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Book Review| April 01 2005 A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Steven Hahn. Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 249–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.249 Cite …
American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta
Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970
American Congo
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Journal Article The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980 Get access The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980. By Minchin Timothy J.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn0-8078-2618-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn0-8078-4933-2.) Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State UniversityUniv…
Fatal Flood
The 1927 Mississippi River flood is a major part of the historical memory of the Mississippi Delta. Anyone interviewing residents of the Delta who lived through the disaster will find that the flood always emerges as a topic, regardless of the subject of the interview. Memories of the flood, however, are shaped by the contours of race and class that defined the plantation economy, which stretched from southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkans…
Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era
Journal Article Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. By Patricia Sullivan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 335 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2260-4. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4564-7.) Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1900
Journal Article Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830–1900. By Bradley G. Bond. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. xvi, 343 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-1976-8.) Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, Jun…
The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars
Journal Article The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars. By Tracy Campbell. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993 and Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890–1915. By Christopher Waldrep. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993 Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Deepest South
Mississippi Delta Planters and Debates over Mechanization, Labor, and Civil Rights in the 1940s
African-American Struggles for Citizenship in the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas in the Age of Jim Crow
Research Article| January 01 1993 African-American Struggles for Citizenship in the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas in the Age of Jim Crow Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 33–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-55-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nan Elizabeth Woodruff; African-American …
The Transition to Capitalism in America
Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice
Journal Article Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice. By Susan Archer Mann. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xvi + 211 pp. $29.95.) Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Penn State University, University Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078110 Published: 01 June…
As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31
As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31
As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31
Journal Article As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930–31. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xii + 203 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and in- dex. $18.95.) Get access Donald H. Grubbs Donald H. Grubbs University of the Pacific Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1…
Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1900
The Booker T. Washington Papers. Volume 9: 1906-8
The Failure of Relief during the Arkansas Drought of 1930-1931
The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History
The Failure of Relief during the Arkansas Drought of 1930-1931
The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History
The Booker T. Washington Papers. Volume 9: 1906-8
Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1900
As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31
As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31
As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31
Journal Article As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930–31. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xii + 203 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and in- dex. $18.95.) Get access Donald H. Grubbs Donald H. Grubbs University of the Pacific Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1…
Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice
Journal Article Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice. By Susan Archer Mann. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xvi + 211 pp. $29.95.) Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Penn State University, University Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078110 Published: 01 June…
The Transition to Capitalism in America
African-American Struggles for Citizenship in the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas in the Age of Jim Crow
Research Article| January 01 1993 African-American Struggles for Citizenship in the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas in the Age of Jim Crow Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 33–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-55-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nan Elizabeth Woodruff; African-American …
Deepest South
Mississippi Delta Planters and Debates over Mechanization, Labor, and Civil Rights in the 1940s
The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars
Journal Article The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars. By Tracy Campbell. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993 and Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890–1915. By Christopher Waldrep. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993 Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era
Journal Article Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. By Patricia Sullivan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 335 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2260-4. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4564-7.) Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1900
Journal Article Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830–1900. By Bradley G. Bond. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. xvi, 343 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-1976-8.) Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, Jun…
Fatal Flood
The 1927 Mississippi River flood is a major part of the historical memory of the Mississippi Delta. Anyone interviewing residents of the Delta who lived through the disaster will find that the flood always emerges as a topic, regardless of the subject of the interview. Memories of the flood, however, are shaped by the contours of race and class that defined the plantation economy, which stretched from southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkans…
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Journal Article The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980 Get access The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980. By Minchin Timothy J.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn0-8078-2618-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn0-8078-4933-2.) Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pennsylvania State UniversityUniv…
Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970
American Congo
American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta
A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Book Review| April 01 2005 A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Steven Hahn. Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 249–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.249 Cite …
Empire, Race, and Labor: Empire, Race, and Labor
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Book Review| September 01 2012 The Lost Promise of Civil Rights The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010 376 pp., $18.95 (paper) Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (3): 106–108. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1599684 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II
Françoise N. Hamlin's study of the civil rights movement in Clarksdale, Mississippi, is a beautifully written book, strong in its ability to capture the different organizing strategies pursued in one community. In Clarksdale, readers see how personality, class, sexism, and gender shaped local organizing. Hamlin uses the lives of two leaders: Aaron Henry, the well-known president of the state's first chapter of the National Association for the Adv…
Mississippi's Black Cotton
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