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For the freedom of her race : Black women and electoral politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 /

Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly 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 demonstrates the impact...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Materson, Lisa G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Tomorrow you will go to the polls : women's voting in Chicago in 1894
  • Because her parents had never had the chance : southern migrant politics during the 1910s
  • Profit from the mistakes of men : national party politics, 1920-1924
  • The prohibition issue as a smoke screen : the failure of racial uplift ideology and the 1928 election
  • Political reconstruction for themselves and their daughters : the campaigns of Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1927-1930.