Obliged to Help
Bayless, Stephanie
Obliged to Help: Adolphine Fletcher Terry and the Progressive South" examines why this Southern aristocratic matron, the daughter of a Confederate soldier, tirelessly devoted herself to improving the lives of others and, in so doing, became a model for activism across the South. Her life was a monument to progress not only in the South, but also in her native state of Arkansas, a place she once described as "holy ground.