Anne Firor Scott papers, 1790-2014 (bulk 1939-2012)

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Summary

Creator:
Scott, Anne Firor, 1921-
Extent:
34.75 Linear Feet
34.75 linear feet
Language:
Materias are in English.
Collection ID:
RL.01155

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains writings of Anne Firor Scott and materials relating to her academic work in Southern and women's history. The materials primarily refer to her scholarly activities, and include her dissertation, occasional papers, articles, speeches and lectures, book reviews, contracts, conference proceedings and schedules, course materials, newspaper clippings, and other activities related to academia. There is also a file of correspondence written by Anna Lord Strauss (then president of the League of Women Voters) in 1949 and mailed to all members the league. Notes by Scott in this file explain her connection to Strauss, and the circumstances of the correspondence. In addition, there are newspaper articles related to the first and second editions of Scott's book, The Southern Lady. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Preliminary container lists exist for only parts of the collection.

Biographical / historical:

Professor emerita of history at Duke University, Durham, N.C. Anne Firor Scott (1921-2019) helped establish the field of women's history. Scott was awarded a 2013 National Humanities Medal for "groundbreaking research spanning ideology, race, and class."

Born in Montezuma, Georgia, she went on to work alongside aging suffragists at the National League of Women Voters in Washington, D.C. during World War II. She graduated the University of Georgia at 19, earned a master's degree at Northwestern, and completed her Ph.D. at Radcliffe while raising three small children. She later moved to North Carolina with her husband, political scientist Andrew Scott, teaching part-time at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke before joining the Duke faculty full-time. Scott taught at Duke from 1961 to 1991 and became history department chair in 1980. She received the University Medal for Distinguished, Meritorious Services at Duke in 1991.

Scott led the N.C. Commission on the Status of Women and served on President Lyndon Johnson's Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She also received the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Service Award. The Lerner-Scott Prize, named for Scott and historian Gerda Lerner, is awarded to the best doctoral dissertation on the subject of U.S. women's history by the Organization of American Historians. In addition, a scholarship in her name supports a graduate student's work at Duke.

In addition to The Southern Lady (1970), which helped establish the field of women's history, Scott wrote or edited eight additional books, including Women in American Life, Making the Invisible Woman Visible, and Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White.

Sources: Duke Today.

Acquisition information:
The Anne Firor Scott Papers was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 1985-2014.
Processing information:

Processed by Ruth E. Bryan, Paula Jeannet, Lisa Stark, Tim West, and other Rubenstein Library staff.

Completed July 1, 1985-October 31, 2000.

Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan.

Finding aid updated by Meghan Lyon, May 2009.

This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

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Access restricted. Some materials closed by donor request. Personal correspondence and diaries are closed until 2044. Boxes 1-4 of Acc. 2014-2019 are restricted.

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