Sallie Southall Cotten

[1] In her mid-forties, Sallie Cotten accepted an appointment from governor Elias Carr to serve as one of North Carolina's managers at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

"[2] She decided to focus on books written by North Carolina women for her part of the exhibit, spent four months in Chicago, and received a medal for her contributions.

[6] In 1925 she published The History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, 1901-1925, with the opening line "What has been known as the Woman's Movement was a revolution — bloodless but not purposeless."

Among her other publications were The White Doe (1901),[7] an epic poem about Virginia Dare, which she often presented in public readings;[8] and What Aunt Dorcas Told Little Elsie (1923), a collection of "Negro folklore stories" which reflected the condescending racial attitudes of a nostalgic white Southerner in her time.

[15] The Junior Woman's Club of Raleigh offers a Sallie Southall Cotten Scholarship for North Carolina students.