“No One Was on Their Own”: Sociability among Rural African American Women in Middle Georgia during the Interwar Years

CHRISSY LUTZ earned her MA and PhD at Georgia State University. In 2017, she retired with tenure from the graduate teaching faculty at Fort Valley State University, where she had created and taught courses such as “Women and Gender in World History” and “Narratives of the Black Atlantic.” In 2018, she contributed “The Woolfolk Murders, 1887: Adjusting One Race Myth,” to Middle Georgia and the Approach of Modernity, edited by Fred R. van Hartesveldt (McFarland & Company, 2018). She and Van Hartesveldt are working together on a history of the Addie and William Alphaeus Hunton family.

DAWN HERD-CLARK is the former Chair of the Department of History, Geography, Political Science, and Criminal Justice at Fort Valley State University. Her current area of research is the impact of agricultural extension work at Fort Valley State University. She is currently a history instructor at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida.