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This article examines the life and experience of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, a well-educated, Southern white woman who lived on the margin of plantation society as the daughter of a University professor who owned two slaves prior to the Civil War. Spencer was recognized and respected as a knowledgeable political voice and wrote regularly on contemporary women's issues in newspaper columns. She was in a position to use her position and pen to influence social change; however, her writing reveals a woman working to shape and solidify cultural and social conservatism and a reinforcement of antebellum values, gender roles, and societal views, as well as a nostalgia and affection for the pre-war Southern social constructs.
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39933
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This article features 12 women from North Carolina being: Virginia Dare; Cornelia Phillips Spencer; Dolly Payne Madison; Charlotte Hawkins Brown; Marie Watters Coleman; Katie G. Dorsett; Nina Simone; Sarah Parker; Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford Dole; Patricia 'Pat' Timmons-Goodson; Beverly Marlene Moore Perdue; Jennifer Pharr Davis
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8898
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Cornelia Phillips Spencer led the movement for North Carolina to make a flag to be included in the centennial Independence celebration in 1876. While only a decade removed from the Civil War, Spencer believed North Carolina's Revolutionary heroes should be honored with North Carolina's participation in the celebration. The flag hung in Independence Hall for a year. It was then returned to North Carolina where it was placed in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Eventually the flag was taken down and stored away, but it has since been lost.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 8, Jan 1984, p24, 25, por
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10017
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In this continuing series of articles about women who have played dramatic and interesting roles in the history of North Carolina, Rogers discusses Cornelia Phillips Spencer. She was a skilled artist who drew sketches of Chapel Hill and wrote everything from poems to hymns and sketches of men, and women and events. She is known to North Carolinians for her efforts to close the University of North Carolina when it was being disgraced by the carpet-bag regime, and then working to get it reopened a few years later under a new regime.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 1 Issue 6, Oct 1943, p22-23, il, por, bibl
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11536
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North Carolina has produced many great women who have played dramatic and interesting roles in the state's history. Grimes makes her case for Cornelia Phillips Spencer as the greatest of them all. She is endeared to North Carolinians for her efforts to close the University of North Carolina when it was being disgraced by the carpet-bag regime, and then working to get it reopened a few years later under a new regime.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 1 Issue 50, May 1934, p11, 22, por
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