Elizabeth Jacoway

Elizabeth Jacoway (born June 16, 1944) is a historian and author in the United States who has written about the history of Arkansas. Her grandmother Peggy Jacoway wrote a book about the First Ladies of Arkansas[1] published in 1941.[2]

She grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas.[3] She won the Booker Worthen Literary Prize.[4]

She wrote a book about desegregation in Little Rock.[5][6]

She appears in the film Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, a film about Daisy Bates.[7] Historian Brooks Blevins was one of her students.[8]

Books

  • Yankee missionaries in the South: The Penn School experiment (1980)[9]
  • No Straight Path; Becoming Women Historians (2019), editor[10]
  • Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation (2007)[11]
  • Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation, with C. Fred Williams[12]
  • Adaptable South: Essays in Honor of George Brown Tindall, co-editor[13]
  • Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times, entry on Daisy Lee Bates[14]

References

  1. ↑ Schulz, Constance B.; Turner, Elizabeth Hayes (September 5, 2004). Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6428-2 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "Jacoway, Peggy". arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org.
  3. ↑ Bolton, C. C. (2008). "Elizabeth Jacoway. Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation. New York: Free Press. 2007. Pp. Xiii, 477. $30.00". The American Historical Review. 113: 218–219. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.1.218.
  4. ↑ Faller, Angelita (August 5, 2024). "Kirk Receives Booker Worthen Literary Prize for Winthrop Rockefeller Biography".
  5. ↑ "Elizabeth Jacoway | Arkansas Democrat Gazette". www.arkansasonline.com. February 4, 2007.
  6. ↑ "Turn Away Thy Son".
  7. ↑ Cruise, Sharon La (February 2, 2012). "Little Rock's Daisy Bates Gets a Film of Her Own".
  8. ↑ "'Historian-in-residence' Dr. Brooks Blevins returns to Lyon College for fall semester". White River Now - Batesville, AR.
  9. ↑ Thornbrough, Emma Lou (1980). "Review of Yankee Missionaries in the South: The Penn School Experiment". The North Carolina Historical Review. 57 (3): 351–352. ISSN 0029-2494.
  10. ↑ Fought, Leigh (2021). "No Straight Path: Becoming Women Historians ed. by Elizabeth Jacoway (review)". Journal of Southern History. 87 (4): 755–757. ISSN 2325-6893.
  11. ↑ "Turn Away Thy Son". Kirkus Reviews.
  12. ↑ Jacoway, Elizabeth; Williams, C. Fred, eds. (1999-07-01). Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation. University of Arkansas Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16x2b6v. ISBN 978-1-61075-441-5.
  13. ↑ Miller, Randall M.; Jacoway, Elizabeth; Carter, Dan T.; Lamon, Lester C.; McMath, Robert C. (December 1993). "The Adaptable South: Essays in Honor of George Brown Tindall". The Journal of American History. 80 (3): 1114. doi:10.2307/2080505.
  14. ↑ Lancaster, Guy (2008). "Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked a Nation (review)". Oral History Review. 35 (1): 88–89. ISSN 1533-8592.
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