Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century

Janet Allured, Ph.D., retired Professor of History and of Women’s Studies at McNeese State University, is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arkansas. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications on southern women, including Louisiana Women:  Their Lives and Times (2009), Remapping Second-Wave Feminism:  The Long Women’s Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997 (2016) and most recently, a collection of biographies of white and Black southern Methodist women entitled Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice:  Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century (2025), co-edited with M. Kathryn Armistead and published by the University Press of Florida. With Elizabeth Payne she co-produced Showers of Blessing:  The Story of Myrtle Lawrence, Sharecropper and Social Activist, and the Photography of Louise. She is currently at work on a monograph about the domestic missionary work of southern Methodist laywomen.