Barbara Massey ReeceNellie Duke, 83, remembers flipping through textbooks in the 1960s and finding footnotes that read, “Does not concern women, idiots or children.”
Since then she’s dedicated herself to learning about the female leaders of the South, and she has been determined for the past several years to create a Southern Women’s History Museum in Georgia, where she lives.
Soon, she said, that museum will become a reality.
The public is invited to a meeting today to discuss plans for the museum, and women such as Duke will be there to answer any questions. The meeting starts at 5:20 p.m. at the Historic Depot in downtown Summerville, Ga.
The event is sponsored by Georgia Women’s Museum Inc., the Georgia Commission on Women and the Georgia Women’s Institute. Duke is the president of the Georgia Commission on Women, and the event will be hosted by former state Rep. Barbara Massey Reece, D-Menlo.