Lunch-N-Learn – Confederate Women as Leaders and C.E.O.s: A New Destiny

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Once Southern men marched off to war, women were called on to become the mother’s of invention and fill jobs men once occupied. The realities of war caused the roles of women to expand far beyond women’s work into areas never imagined. Those who remained behind, including free women, slaves, immigrants, poor farm wives, wives of workers, and the wealthiest one per cent, rose to every occasion and came together for the good of the men they loved.

Confederate women were bound together in “the cause” as they pioneered nursing, managed businesses, worked in manufacturing, contracted gunboats, outfitted regiments, and sacrificed all their material possessions to aid the troops. In the end, they buried the dead, erected monuments to honor the men they lost, and preserved the history for ancestors to honor one hundred and fifty years later.

Discover the voices of these women found in correspondence, diaries, oral histories recorded by family members, newspaper articles, broadsides, invitations and announcements. The information for this program was drawn mostly from primary sources found at the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, the Museum of the Confederacy, and United Daughters of the Confederacy Archives.

Lynn Salsi is an author, teacher, playwright and historian. The author of more than fifteen books for adults and children, she was the winner of the 2003 Anne Izard Storytelling Award, six-time winner of the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award for nonfiction books, 2001 American Library Association Notable Book Award, 2001 Historian of the Year, three-time winner of the Paul Green Multi-Media Award and winner of the Bill Smith Magazine Writing Award. She holds a BA degree from the University of South and an MA in Creative Writing from Seton Hill University. Her newest book on Ray Hicks has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2008.

This project is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Bring your own lunch or pre-order a $10 boxed lunch from Full Plate Kitchen:

Grilled Chicken Salad (Gluten Free Option)
Turkey and Cheese on Wheat
Chicken Salad on Croissant
Roasted Veggie Wrap (Vegetarian Option)

All boxed lunches come with fresh fruit, dessert, and bottled water.  Please place your order by Monday, June 20th at noon.

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