Born: 21-May-1949
Birthplace: Greensboro, NC

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Gender and Jim Crow

Husband: Ben Kiernan

    University: BA Psychology, Wake Forest University (1970)
    University: MA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    University: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Professor: Yale University (1994-)

    Guggenheim Fellowship

Author of books:
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996, history)
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008, history)
These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present (2015, history)

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