Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founding director of the university’s Southern Oral History Program. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and founding president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. Her books and articles include Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching (1979, 1993); Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987, 2000); "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past," Journal of American History (2005), which challenged the myth that the movement was a short, successful bid to overcome segregation in the Jim Crow South; and Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (2019).