The Mississippi State College Herbarium

Taxon ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
George R. Cooley
Keyword(s):  
State College ◽  
Mississippi State College

Students Writing Race at Southern Public Women's Colleges, 1884–1945

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-203
Author(s):  
David Gold
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
White Women ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Women's Colleges ◽  
World War ◽  
State College ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Mississippi State College

Scholars have long debated the complicity of Southern white women after the Civil War in helping create a racialist and racist regional identity and denying or delaying civil rights for African Americans. These studies have largely focused on the activities of elite white women property owners, club members, and writers. Yet few scholars have examined college women's activities in this regard, particularly those of the eight public colleges for women established in the South between 1884 and 1908: Mississippi State College for Women (MSCW) (1884), Georgia State College for Women (1889), Winthrop College in South Carolina (1891), North Carolina College for Women (NCCW) (1891), Alabama College for Women (ACW) (1893), Texas State College for Women (TSCW) (1901), Florida State College for Women (FSCW) (1905), and Oklahoma College for Women (1908). Little studied today, these schools served as important centers of women's education in their states, collectively educating approximately 100,000 women before World War II and with combined enrollments exceeding that of the Seven Sisters schools for many years.

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