Myrta Lockett Avary (December 7, 1857 – February 14, 1946) was an American white supremacist, writer, and journalist. Her books include Dixie After the War (1906), The Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens (1910) and Uncle Remus and the Wren's Nest (1913). She died on February 14, 1946, in Atlanta.[1][2]
Myrta Lockett was born in Halifax County, Virginia on December 7, 1857. She was born to Harwood and Augusta Lockett. She married Georgian physician James Corbin Avary in 1884 and moved to Atlanta, Georgia.[2] They had a son who died in infancy.[2]
In Atlanta, Avary wrote for multiple publications, including the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta Constitution, and Atlanta Georgian.[2] In 1880, she moved with Dr. Avary to New York and they separated in 1911.[3] Avary wrote for more publications there, such as the Christian Herald.
In 1908, she returned to Atlanta, and continued working in journalism.[1] She died on February 14, 1946, in Atlanta.[1]
Avary was engaged in charity work at home,[1] but also in India, China, and Cuba.[2]
Avary's worksedit
Avary is the author of the book A Virginia Girl in the Civil War published in 1903.[2]
In 1906, Avary published Dixie After the War, a history of the Reconstruction era. In this outright racist book, she complains that the effect of the abolition of slavery had been that "the negro, en masse, relapsed promptly into the voodooism of Africa. Emotional extravaganzas, which for the sake of his health and sanity, if for nothing else, had been held in check by his owners, were indulged without restraint."[4] She glorified lynchings and the terror of the Ku Klux Klan and – along with other authors like Thomas Dixon Jr. – "deformed the reality of the white counterrevolution during Reconstruction".[5]
Four years later, in 1910, the next work that Avary published was The Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens. Stephens had been the Vice President of the Confederate States of America and, while in Union custody, he kept a journal, which is what Avary would later publish.
^"Acree, Sallie Ann – Avary, Myrta Lockett | Virginia Museum of History & Culture". www.virginiahistory.org. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
^Cited according to: Blight, David W. (2001). Race and Reunion. The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. p. 112. ISBN0-674-00819-7.
^Blight, David W. (2001). Race and Reunion. The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. p. 112. ISBN0-674-00819-7.
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