Archival Resources

Suggested Reading - Birmingham Women's History

Anderson, Fletcher, “Foundations of Musical Culture in Birmingham, Alabama, 1971-1900.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 3 (January 1980).

Atkins, Leah Rawls, “Growing Up Around Edgewood Lake.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIV, No. 2 (April 1991).

Durr, Virginia Foster, Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1985.
Reviewed:
The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (October 1986) and The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LII, No. 4 (November 1986)

Goodrich, Gillian, “Romance and Reality: The Birmingham Suffragists,
1892-1920.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society,
Vol. V, No. 3 (January 1978).

Ingham, Vicki Leigh, “Women, Art and the New South: From the Birmingham Art Club to the Birmingham Museum of Art.” M.A. Thesis, The University of Alabama at Birmingham and The University of Alabama, 1994.

LaMonte, Edward S., Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900-1975. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1995.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 50, No. 1 (January 1997)

LaMonte, Edward S., “The Mercy Home and Private Charity in Early Birmingham.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. V, No. 4 (July 1978).

Lennox, Tim, “Rosa Zinszer: Birmingham Entrepreneuse Extraordinary.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. VI, No. 3 (January 1980).

McDowell, Deborah E., Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 51, No. 3 (July 1998)

Rikard, Marlene Hunt, “An Experiment in Welfare Capitalism: The Health Care Services of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Alabama, 1983.

Rikard, Marlene Hunt, “’Take Everything You Are … And Give It Away’: Pioneer Industrial Workers at TCI.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 2 (November 1981).

Sterne, Ellin, “Prostitution in Birmingham, Alabama, 1890-1925.” M.A. Thesis, Samford University, 1977.

Tarry, Ellen, The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1992 (reprint of original 1955 edition and 1966 reprint).
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 3 (July 1994)

Thomas, Mary Martha, The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1992.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 4 (October 1993) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LX, No. 1 (February 1994)

Thomas, Mary Martha, Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1987.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 3 (July 1988) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, No. 4 (November 1988)

Wooster, Louise C., The Autobiography of a Magdalene. Birmingham: Birmingham Publishing Company, 1971 (reprint of the original 1911 edition).