Record #:

10014

Author(s):

Roger, Lou

Abstract:

Sallie Southall Cotton married a Confederate Army officer after the Civil War and raised a family. Most women of that period settled in to do “womanly things” after their families had grown, but Mrs. Cotton embarked on a career of public service. She felt that working together women could achieve great things. In 1902, she was a force in founding the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, an organization that enabled women statewide to speak as a group for public school improvement, prison reform, and aid to the poor and elderly.

Source:

We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 1 Issue 5, Sept 1943, p12-13,, por, bibl

Subject(s):

Women--History--Modern period, 1600-; Cotten, Sallie Southall, 1846-1929