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Dykeman, Wilma was born on May 20, 1920 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Willard J. and Bonnie (Cole) Dykeman.
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“The story is a good one . . . for it exposes in an intimate and personal way the qualities of an important social architect of our time.” ―Dewey Grantham, American Historical Review Had Will Alexander not shunned the limelight, he might already be a national legend, for he was one of the greatest white champions of the Negro cause in the South from 1915 to 1954. A farm boy who worked his way through Vanderbilt University and became a Methodist minister, he was a tireless enemy of the abuses, large and petty, which he saw around him. In 1919 Will Alexander helped establish the Commission on Interracial Co-operation in Atlanta. During the Depression he became assistant administrator of the Resettlement Administration and, later, director of the Farm Security Administration; under his supervision, the tide was finally turned against the spread of sharecropping. In World War II he served as adviser on minority problems to the War Manpower Commission. He was the driving force in founding Dillard and Atlanta universities. These were some of his achievements in public life. In addition, he helped and encouraged individual Negroes such as Marian Anderson, Ralphe Bunche, and Robert Weaver and influenced eminent white southerners, including Ralph McGill, Lillian Smith, and Brooks Hays. His real impact must be measured also in the numbers of southerners giving leadership today who owe to him their start in the fight against prejudice.
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Goal of the book is to fill a gap in our Knowledge of this nation's past--to search out comple and present information that will recapture the "lost History" of American women as Nikki Giovanni, Bessie Smith, Minnie Pearl, Wilma Rudolf, Rachel Donelson Jackson, Doris B. Tanner and more.
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There has been a great deal written about the "ugly American," but somehow the American of good intent, the one who tries to be a decent and warm human being, has fallen voiceless by the wayside. The honest people around us, the understanding that we all hope to get and to give, the experience of nature, the joy of children are somehow lost in the negative stridency which assaults us every day. But Wilma Dykeman in LOOK TO THIS DAY gives us a picture of one woman's thoughts and feelings: at dawn over the Southern mountains as she watches the sunrise from her kitchen window, at the airport as her son departs for his Northern prep school, in the tribute she pays to an elderly Negro teacher in Tennessee, or the revelations of a trip to Siena in Italy. With the views of three generations-her mother, her husband and herself, and her two teenage sons -Wilma Dykeman shows what a thoughtful life, kept purposefully uncomplicated, can be like when the viewpoint is universal: at home, exploring the United States from coast to coast and from North to South, and traveling in Europe. With realistic vision and penetrating insight, Miss Dykeman epitomizes the woman of spirit that made America famous and adds to the portrait the intelligence and grace which make her the unique writer she is.
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Tennessee, the long, thin state stretching from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Mississippi River, is as richly varied in history as in terrain. And from Davy Crockett, "Old Hickory" Andrew Jackson, and presidential candidate Estes Kefauver's coonskin cap, it has derived the colorful image of a frontier state. Tennessee has been a land of many kinds of frontiers--from the day in 1540 when Spaniards in armor, fevered for gold and glory, struggled along the river banks near present-day Memphis, to the latest developments in radiation research at today's complicated laboratories in Oak Ridge.
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Dykeman, Wilma was born on May 20, 1920 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Willard J. and Bonnie (Cole) Dykeman.
Bachelor of Science inSpeech, Northwestern University, 1940. Doctor of Letters, Maryville College, 1974. Doctor of Humane Letters, Tennessee Wesleyan College, 1978.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, Asheville, 1997.
Lecturer English Department, University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1975-1995;
Adjunct Professor, U. Tennessee, Knoxville, 1985-1995. Columnist Knoxville News-Sentinel, since 1962. Historian State of Tennessee, since 1980.
National lecturer in field. Board directors First Union Bank.
(Goal of the book is to fill a gap in our Knowledge of thi...)
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Trustee Berea College, 1971-1995, Phelps Stokes Fund, 1981-1991, University North Carolina-Asheville, 1985-1991. Active Friends of Great Smokies National Park. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild, Southern History Association, Cosmos Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma.
Married James R. Stokely Junior, October 12, 1940 (deceased 1977). Children: Dykeman Cole, James R. III.