The election of Governor Jimmy Carter in 1970 began a number of progressive reforms that challenged long-held norms in this former Confederate state. Once set in motion, white supremacist and patriarchal assumptions began to lose their foothold. For example, the 19th Amendment was at last ratified...
Mashonaland, traditional region in northeastern Zimbabwe, bordering Zambia to the north and Mozambique to the northeast and east. It is the traditional homeland of the Shona (q.v.), a Bantu-speaking people who are subsistence farmers, live in villages, a