Introduction & Part I: Home
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin on Brenau College (now University) campus, Gainesville, Georgia, 1900. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and Grace Lumpkin in winter dress, late 1920s-early 1930s. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Lumpkin family home in Oglethorpe County, near Lexington, Georgia, built c. 1790, after the family migrated from King and Queen Courthouse, Virginia, in 1784. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Statue of Wade Hampton on South Carolina state house grounds in sight of Trinity Episcopal Church (now Cathedral), where Hampton is buried. Asheville Postcard Company, Asheville, North Carolina.
William Wallace Lumpkin, Confederate Veteran, 1906. Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Annette Caroline Morris Lumpkin, n.d. Courtesy of Katherine Glenn Kent.
Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin as Lost Cause orator, Confederate Veteran, 1905. Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Grace Lumpkin as Lost Cause orator, Confederate Veteran, 1905. Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Elizabeth and Eugene Glenn’s “Confederate Wedding,” Confederate Veteran, 1906. Elizabeth and Eugene Glenn are in the center. Annette Lumpkin is on Eugene’s left; William Lumpkin is standing behind Elizabeth. Katharine is in the left bottom corner, leaning in, with Grace to Elizabeth’s right. Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
“Oriental Parlor,” Brenau College, Brenau Bulletin, April 1913. Courtesy of Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia.
Annual sophomore/senior Valentine’s dance at Brenau College, organized by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin as president of the sophomore class. Photograph is from the 1915 student yearbook, Bubbles. Courtesy of Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia.
Part II: “A New Heaven and a New Earth”
Elizabeth and Eugene Glenn, with their children, from left, Marion, William, Ann, and Eugene Glenn Jr., with Annette Lumpkin, in Asheville, North Carolina, c. 1916. Courtesy of Katherine Glenn Kent.
United Confederate Veterans meeting at Elizabeth Lumpkin Glenn’s home in the Montford neighborhood, Asheville, North Carolina, c 1915-1926. Courtesy of Katherine Glenn Kent.
Students from across the South gathered at the YMCA’s Blue Ridge Assembly, 1920. Courtesy of the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Archives.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin at twenty-one. Courtesy of Katherine Glenn Kent.
YWCA World War I poster. Courtesy of Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
Grace Lumpkin, while serving as a war worker for the YWCA, with Jacqueline Lewis, a dancer from the Grand Opera of Paris in Quiberon, France, 1919. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
Frances Harriet Williams, a YWCA student secretary in the 1920s and 1930s who shared leadership responsibilities with Katharine in the southern region. She went on to work closely with Walter White of the NAACP and to serve as race relations advisor to the head of the Office of Price Administration during the New Deal. Courtesy of Martha S. Jones.
Katharine Lumpkin, front, with unidentified YWCA friends at the Blue Ridge Assembly in the mountains of North Carolina, c. spring 1924. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hope Lumpkin, the sisters’ oldest brother, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Madison, Wisconsin. Courtesy of Katherine Glenn Kent.
Katharine on vacation with her brother Hope Lumpkin’s family in northern Wisconsin, summer 1925. Courtesy of John H. Lumpkin Sr.
Dorothy Sybil Wolff (Douglas), c. 1912. Courtesy of Kate Douglas Torrey.
Grace Lumpkin in front of the fireplace at Kok-I House, a rear courtyard building in the East Village, where she lived with her friend Esther Shemitz and later with husband Michael Intrator, late 1920s through the 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
Cover of Some Take a Lover, a novel that Grace Lumpkin published under the pseudonym Ann Du Pre in 1933. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
Juliette Derricotte, a YWCA student secretary in the 1920s, traveled the world in behalf of the World Christian Association and served as dean of women at Fisk University. At thirty-four, she died in a car accident in Dalton, Georgia, due in part to the failure of rescuers to take her and her fellow passengers to the nearby whites-only hospital. This tragedy sparked an outcry that helped to push the YWCA toward an increasingly forthright stand against segregation. Courtesy of the Fisk University Archives.
Part III: A Chosen Exile
Ella May’s orphaned children. Left to right: Albert, 3; Myrtle, 11; Chalady, 13 months; Clyde, 8; Millie, 6. Courtesy of the Millican Pictorial History Museum.
Mexico, Summer 1938. Myra Page is on the burro. Katharine is to her left. Courtesy of May Kanfer.
The Manse, an historic home built c. 1744 and purchased by Dorothy Wolff Douglas in 1940. She and Katharine lived and worked there until the late 1950s, providing rooms and apartments for many others during the housing shortage following World War II. Courtesy of Kate Douglas Torrey.
Part IV: Writing a Way Home
Elizabeth at work on her never published historical novel, 1961. Courtesy of William W. L. and Amory Potter Glenn.
Katharine in 1947, upon the publication of her autobiography. Courtesy of Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From right to left, Katharine, Elizabeth, and Grace Lumpkin, at the home of their nephew William W. L. Glenn, New Haven, Connecticut, 1949. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, The University of North Carolina.
Grace Lumpkin testifying before the Permanent Investigating Subcommittee of the Government Operations Committee chaired by Joseph P. McCarthy on April 2, 1953. Courtesy of the Associated Press.
Dorothy Wolff Douglas on the steps of the Capitol brandishing a prepared statement she was denied permission to read during her appearance before HUAC in March 1953, Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1953.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin at work on biography of Angelina Grimké, early 1970s, Charlottesville, VA. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acknowledgments
Jacquelyn Hall interviewing Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin at a retirement community in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, early 1980s.
Sisters and Rebels 