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Rebecca S. Montgomery. The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890–1930. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2006. Pp. 263. $49.95.
Education was one of the Progressive reforms that successfully took root in the South after the turn of the century. To explain this, historians have offered various arguments, including evidence that white southerners sought to match African American efforts at education or to improve the educational level of whites for industrialization in the New South. Rebecca S. Montgomery adds to these explanations by arguing that white women were central to the fight for public education because of their desire to gain personal freedom through education, shift power relations within the household, and expand their economic opportunities.	1
Following the Civil War, southern white women, predominantly middle-class women, identified public education as a means for political agency and self-determination. They sought public employment for white women as teachers, which would create new economic opportunities for women following the war. In addition, women's organizations formed, such as the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and the Georgia School Improvement Club (GSIC). As these organizations pushed for improvements in public education, women countered the image of the dependent southern lady shaping a gendered political culture that still preserved southern traditions such as evangelical Protestantism, white supremacy, and states' rights.	. . .

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