Today in Georgia History
November 21, 1922
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Suggested Readings
LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters : Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Found in the Main collection at the Georgia Historical
Society (www.georgiahistory.com)
A. Louise Staman, Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia's Feisty Mrs. Felton, First
Woman Senator of the United States (Macon, Ga.: Tiger Iron Press, 2006).
John E. Talmadge, Rebecca Latimer Felton: Nine Stormy Decades (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1960).
LeeAnn Whites, "Rebecca Latimer Felton: The Problem of Protection in the New South," in
Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1., ed. Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009).
LeeAnn Whites, "Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Wife's Farm: The Class and Racial Politics of
Gender Reform," Georgia Historical Quarterly 76 (summer 1992): 354-72.
Georgia Women of Achievement: http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/felton-rebeccalatimer/
Rebecca Latimer Felton, 1835-1930. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth. Atlanta,
Ga.: Index Printing Company, c1919. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/felton/menu.html
Rebecca L. Felton Biography, Biographical Directory of the United State
Congress http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=F000069
“Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930).” New Georgia
Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-904&sug=y
Image Credits
November 21, 1922: Rebecca L. Felton
Dr. and Mrs. Felton ca 1920
My Memoirs of Georgia Politics, RB F291 F32
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Dr. WH Felton 1880
My Memoirs of Georgia Politics, RB F291
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Rebecca Felton , Prominent Women of Georgia , Main Collection, F285 P76
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
“Mrs. Felton Georgia’s Grand Old Woman”
The Sunny South, 1901
Presented online by the Digital Library of Georgia
“Mrs. Felton Not For Lynching”, Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 20, 1897
“Mrs. Felton says right of woman to vote is at last in sight,” Atlanta Journal Constitution. March 21,
1920
“Mrs. Feltons Article on the Negro Question.” Atlanta Journal Constitution. November 19, 1901
Rebecca Felton greeted by prominent political women in DC, 1922
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-67895
Rebecca Felton in bonnet 1922
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-46644
Rebecca Felton, 1880
Image Courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, ahc170105001
Rebecca L Felton in her Senate Office, Nov 18 1922
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-npcc-07362
Senator Walter George, Nov 1922
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-npcc-07365
Standing Portrait of Rebecca L Felton with Capitol in background
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-46645
Thomas W. Hardwick, half-length portrait
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-45855
Tom Watson, MC E 664 W337 W6
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society