For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 - Softcover

Materson, Lisa G.

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ISBN 10: 1469600897 ISBN 13: 9781469600895

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

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Well-organized, nicely written, and makes an important contribution to our knowledge of African American women's history and politics, and to our understanding of the sometimes messy and complicated processes by which political realignments occur.--Indiana Magazine of History Makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of African-American women within Jim Crow era politics.--Southwest Journal of Cultures An important new study . . . [that contributes] to the historiography on political culture in modern America and on Illinois and the Midwest.--The Annals of Iowa Materson has done an admirable job of placing the political activities of local African American women in a larger context. . . . [She] aptly reveals how African American women jockeyed for position to push forward their political interests.--Journal of Southern History The book is exhaustively researched, meticulously analyzed, and does justice to the complex ways that those who are politically motivated function inside the limitations of a two-party system.--The Journal of American History Convincingly demonstrates that black women were agents of social and political change, and carefully traces the post-emancipation experiences of southern black women who used the political process to gain political rights for all blacks.--Journal of Illinois History One of this book's many strengths is that Materson takes her subjects seriously as political actors.--American Historical Review

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Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black women's involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics. Examining the oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932--a period that is often described as the nadir of black life in America--Lisa Materson shows that as African American women migrated beyond the reach of southern white supremacists, they became active voters, canvassers, suffragists, campaigners, and lobbyists, mobilizing to gain a voice in national party politics and elect representatives who would push for the enforcement of the Reconstruction Amendments in the South.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1469600897
• ISBN 13: 9781469600895
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360