{"id":1331,"date":"2013-12-03T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:00:47","slug":"griffith-lucille-blanche-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"GRIFFITH, LUCILLE BLANCHE, 1905-1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; professor of\u00a0 history. Born&#8211; October 25, 1905, in Bessville, Mo. Parents&#8211; Lawrence Clinton and Caroline (Mabuce) Griffith. Education&#8211; Belhaven College, A.B., 1929; Tulane University, M.A., 1942; Brown University, Ph.D., 1957. Taught high school in Mississippi; head, History Department, East Mississippi Junior College, Scooba; taught history at the University of Montevallo, 1946-1973; headed Social Sciences Department. Member of American and Southern Historical Associations, Society of American Historians, American Association of University Professors, American Association of University Women (President of Alabama Division, 1962-64). Led effort to establish a public library in Montevallo; served as chair of Montevallo Library Board. Died 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3; findagrave website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama; a Documentary History to 1900. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama College, 1896-1969. Montevallo, Ala.; s.n., 1969.<\/p>\n<p>History of Alabama, 1540-1900;\u00a0 Northport, Ala.; Colonial Press, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia House of Burgesses, 1750-1774. Northport, Ala.; Colonial Press, 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I Always Wore My Topi; The Burma Letters of Ethel Mabuce.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Letters from Alabama, 1817-1854, by Anne Royall.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Yours Till Death; Civil War Letters of John W. Calton. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1951.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; professor of\u00a0 history. Born&#8211; October 25, 1905, in Bessville, Mo. Parents&#8211; Lawrence Clinton and Caroline (Mabuce) Griffith. Education&#8211; Belhaven College, A.B., 1929; Tulane University, M.A., 1942; Brown University, Ph.D., 1957. Taught high school in Mississippi; head, History Department, East Mississippi Junior College, Scooba; taught history at the University of Montevallo, 1946-1973; headed Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}