{"id":2304,"date":"2012-02-16T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T22:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2016-05-20T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:55:41","slug":"woodruff-nan-elizabeth-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"WOODRUFF, NAN ELIZABETH, 1949-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; author; college professor. Born August 25, 1949, \u00a0in Anniston, Ala. Parents&#8211; Wallace G., Jr., and Virginia Parks Woodruff. Education&#8211; Jacksonville State University, B.A., 1971; University of Arkansas, M.A., 1973; University of Tennessee, Ph.D., 1977.\u00a0 Assistant editor, Booker T. Washington Papers project, 1977-1978.\u00a0\u00a0Assistant professor of history, \u00a0College of Charleston, 1979-1988; Pennyslvania State University, 1988-present. Lecturer, film consultant, exhibition curator.\u00a0Contributor of articles and reviews to many scholarly journals. \u00a0Member&#8211; Southern and American Historical Associations, Organization of American Historians. Winner of many foundation grants; Awarded McLemore Prize, Mississippi Historical Society, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars; Anniston Star, September 15, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Congo:\u00a0 The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta.\u00a0 Harvard University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>As Rare as Rain; Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31. Urbana; University of Illinois Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arnesen, Eric, ed.\u00a0 The Black Worker:\u00a0 Race and Labor Activism since Emancipation.\u00a0 University of Illinois Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Green, Adam, and Payne, Charles, eds.\u00a0 Time Longer than Rope:\u00a0 A Century of African American Activism.\u00a0 New York University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Booker T. Washington Papers. Champaign, Ill.; University of Illinois Press, 1980-1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; author; college professor. Born August 25, 1949, \u00a0in Anniston, Ala. Parents&#8211; Wallace G., Jr., and Virginia Parks Woodruff. Education&#8211; Jacksonville State University, B.A., 1971; University of Arkansas, M.A., 1973; University of Tennessee, Ph.D., 1977.\u00a0 Assistant editor, Booker T. Washington Papers project, 1977-1978.\u00a0\u00a0Assistant professor of history, \u00a0College of Charleston, 1979-1988; Pennyslvania State University, 1988-present. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","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=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}