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vii YZ Acknowledgments Many people had a hand in making this book possible. We would like to thank Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series editors Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan for their support and assistance in developing this project and our anonymous reviewers for their cogent feedback and advice; this book has been strengthened through their joint efforts. Southern Illinois University Press editor-in-chief Karl Kageff and the press staff made the editing and production process smooth. The Spencer Foundation provided a generous research grant that allowed us to conduct the initial archival research for this project; we also received crucial support from our home institutions. Our archival history would not have been possible without extensive local support at our sites of study, and we would like to acknowledge the kind assistance of the archives, special collections, oral history, and library circulation staffs at Florida State University, Georgia College and State University , Mississippi University for Women, Texas Woman’s University, the University of Montevallo in Alabama, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, and Winthrop University in South Carolina. We are particularly grateful to Burt Altman, Ann Barton, Nancy Davis Bray, Kelly Brown, Bridget Pieschel, Robin Jeanne Sellers, and Gina P. White. Liz Rohan provided the initial introduction that got our project started, and Sharon Crowley and other table members offered early encouragement at the Rhetoric Society of America Research Network when our manuscript consisted of a one-page bulleted list of questions. Aubrey Schiavone provided valuable copyediting and proofreading assistance. We’d also like to thank viii A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S our friends and colleagues who kept asking us, “So when is your book coming out?” with the full expectation that it would; your confidence kept us going. Finally, David would like to thank his wife, Priscilla Hohmann, for her unwavering faith and confidence, and Catherine would like to thank her father, Dan S. Hobbs, for his historical work at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma that provided inspiration and direction for the book. An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as “Students Writing Race at Southern Public Women’s Colleges, 1884–1945,” History of Education Quarterly 50.2 (2010): 182–203; material used courtesy of the journal, the History of Education Society, and Blackwell Publishing. ...