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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Materson, Lisa G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Subjects:
To 1950
African American women > Political activity > Illinois > History.
African Americans > Suffrage > Illinois > History.
African American churches > Political aspects > Illinois > History.
African Americans > Migrations > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > Illinois > History.
Sex role > Political aspects > Illinois > History.
Elections > Illinois > History.
Political parties > United States > History.
Noires américaines > Activité politique > Illinois > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > Illinois > Histoire.
Églises noires américaines > Aspect politique > Illinois > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Droits > Illinois > Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe > Aspect politique > Illinois > Histoire.
Élections > Illinois > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African American women > Political activity
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Migrations
African Americans > Suffrage
Elections
Political parties
Politics and government
Sex role > Political aspects
Illinois > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Chicago (Ill.) > Politics and government > To 1950.
Chicago (Ill.) > Administration > Jusqu'à 1950.
Illinois
Illinois > Chicago
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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