C vann woodward biography

Comer Vann Woodward was arguably the twentieth century’s foremost Southern historian. Although published in the s, his Origins of the New South, – and The Strange Career of Jim Crow remain vital interpretive narratives.

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Vann Woodward was born November 13, , to Hugh (Jack) and Emily (Bess) Woodward in Vanndale (Cross County). During Woodward’s youth, his father was a school administrator in Wynne (Cross County), then Arkadelphia (Clark County), and subsequently Morrilton (Conway County).

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Woodward graduated from high school in Morrilton in and enrolled at Henderson-Brown College, a small Methodist institution in Arkadelphia. After two years, he transferred to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in with an AB in philosophy.

Inspired by his uncle and namesake, Comer Woodward, and a social philosophy honed during his undergraduate experience, Woodward emerged from college determined to combat racial and class injustice.

Woodward spent a year