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96: 419: 31: 92:(1901), which begins with a history of America, and continues with the Indian legend of the white doe as poetry. This work and the travel involved led her to greater involvement with the women's club movement, and in 1902 she helped to organize the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. She was the organization's fifth president (1912-1913), and wrote the federation's anthem. 88:, "but I soon felt at home...and I found that the years of home duties had fitted me for the fields of larger service." She decided to focus on books written by North Carolina women for her part of the exhibit, spent four months in Chicago, and received a medal for her contributions. As a result, she wrote the book 41:(June 13, 1846 – May 4, 1929) was an American writer and clubwoman, based in North Carolina. She helped to organize the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. She was the organization's fifth president, and wrote the federation's anthem, as well as a history of the federation. 138:, and later at "Cottendale," their 1000-acre plantation in Pitt County. The couple had nine children together; three of their children died in childhood. She was widowed in 1928, and moved to Massachusetts, where she was welcomed as "the 157:. There is a highway historical marker about Cotten in Pitt County, near the site of her former home. The Junior Woman's Club of Raleigh offers a Sallie Southall Cotten Scholarship for North Carolina students. During World War II, the 532: 512: 527: 537: 114:, with the opening line "What has been known as the Woman's Movement was a revolution — bloodless but not purposeless." Among her other publications were 150: 126:(1923), a collection of "Negro folklore stories" which reflected the condescending racial attitudes of a nostalgic white Southerner in her time. 149:
Her papers are archived in the Southern Historical Collection at Chapel Hill. There are dormitories named for Sallie Southall Cotten at
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Sallie Southall married Col. Robert Randolph Cotten in 1866. Her husband was a Confederate Army veteran. The couple lived in
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The History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, 1901-1925
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In her mid-forties, Sallie Cotten accepted an appointment from governor
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to serve as one of North Carolina's managers at the 1893 Chicago
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What Aunt Dorcas told Little Elsie, Sallie Southall Cotten, 1923
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at the East Carolina University Digital Collections website.
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Sallie Southall Cotten: A Woman's Life in North Carolina
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Sallie Southall Cotten: A Woman's Life in North Carolina
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Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
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More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women
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Sallie Sims Southall Cotten

Lawrenceville, Virginia
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
American Civil War
Greensboro Female College
Elias Carr
World's Columbian Exposition

National Congress of Mothers
Virginia Dare
Wilson, North Carolina
Julia Ward Howe
Winchester, Massachusetts
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
East Carolina University
Liberty ship
SS Sallie S. Cotten
"Sallie Southall Cotten, 1863"
"Sallie Southall Cotten (1846-1929): Ideal Woman of the New South"
ISBN
9780762776535
"How Sallie Southall Cotten Brought North Carolina to the Chicago World's Fair of 1893"
"The Project Gutenberg eBook of the White Doe, the Fate of Virginia Dare, by Sallie Southall Cotten"
"Sallie Southall Cotten: Organized Womanhood Comes to North Carolina"
ISBN
9780820340005


"Sallie Southall Cotten"

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