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Anna-Morgan Leonards
I am an advanced graduate student working towards my PhD in History at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. My dissertation focuses on Junior Leagues in the Deep South, particularly their healthcare work, from 1917 to 1970. In tracing elite, southern white women’s involvement in public and private healthcare, I am also tracing the history of segregation, gender, and class in the urban setting.
My master’s thesis, “Tearing at the Seams: White Supremacy, Civil Rights, and Mississippi’s Secession Day, March 1961,” analyzed two events that happened within twenty-four hours of each other in Jackson, Mississippi: the state’s largest celebration of white supremacy, its Secession Day parade, and the state’s first sit-in, the Tougaloo Nine’s protest at the city’s whites-only library.