Women and Rhetoric between the Wars

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments We want to thank the many individuals and institutions whose moral, intellectual, and financial support has made possible this collection. In that light, we acknowledge series editors Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan for their helpful encouragement and advice to make this a stronger book, as well as all the team at Southern Illinois University Press. Our institutions—Texas Christian University, Ohio State University , and Pittsburg State University—provided us time and assistance in various forms over the years, and we appreciate their support of this project. We particularly thank Ohio State student Terry Gomes for his editorial assistance in 2010, TCU administrative assistant Lynn Herrera for her assistance in tracking down copyright holders in 2011, and Julie McDowell of Hal Leonard for her assistance with copyright permissions for Bessie Smith’s lyrics. We thank the following archives and estates for permission to quote from their materials: The Elsie Clews Parsons Papers, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA; National Archives of Canada, Ottawa; George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers, Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, West Lafayette, IN; Elizabeth Ann Morris and the Morris Family Collections, Bayfield, CO; the NinetyNines Museum of Women Pilots Collection, Oklahoma City, OK; Julia Grace Wales Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison; and the Archives and Special Collections, Hunter College Libraries, Hunter College of the City University of New York. Finally, we thank the colleagues in our various writing groups for their expert advice and support: Theresa Gaul, Charlotte Hogg, Melanie Kill, Carolyn Skinner, and Cassandra Parente. As always, our families’ patience and understanding was a boon throughout the production experience. Permission to quote from records of the Carolina Low Country Girl Scout Council in chapter 5 was granted to author Sarah Hallenbeck by the Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina. Quotations from the following songs appear in chapter 9: Backwater Blues By Bessie Smith© 1927 (Renewed), 1974 FRANK MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation It Makes My Love Come Down By Bessie Smith© 1929 (Renewed), 1974 FRANK MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation Young Woman’s Blues By Bessie Smith© 1927 (Renewed), 1974 FRANK MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation Dirty No-Gooder’s Blues By Bessie Smith© 1929 (Renewed), 1974 FRANK MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation Soft Pedal Blues Words and Music by Bessie Smith© 1925 (Renewed) FRANK MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation Mama’s Got The Blues Words and Music by Sarah Martin and Clarence Williams Copyright © 1923 UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP. Copyright Renewed All Rights Reserved Used by permission Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation Quotation from the following song appears in chapter 10: “DREADFUL MEMORIES,” Alpha Music Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Also in chapter 10: “I Am a Union Woman,” written by Molly Jackson; “Death of Harry Simms,” written by Jim Garland; and “Hungry Ragged Blues,” written by Molly Jackson, © Figs. D Music (BMI) / Stormking Music (BMI). Under license from The Bicycle Music Company, all rights reserved, used by permission. xii acknowledgments acknowledgments xiii Chapter 11: Permission to quote from the essay “On What a Pilot Eats,” by Amelia Earhart, is provided courtesy of Purdue University Libraries, Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center. Chapter 12: Permission to quote from a letter by Alfred Kroeber to Elsie Clews Parsons, 13 April 1929, archived in the Elsie Clews Parsons Papers, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, was granted by the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. And permission to quote from a letter by Ann Axtell Morris to Dorothy Bryan, 18 March 1933, was granted courtesy of Elizabeth Ann Morris and the Morris Family Collections, Bayfield, Colorado (temporary curator, Inga Calvin). Chapter 15: Permission to quote from various works owned by Hunter College and detailed in this book’s list of works cited was granted by the Hunter College Archives and Special Collections. X WOMEN AND RHETORIC BETWEEN THE WARS ...