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Freedom's ballot : African American political struggles in Chicago from abolition to the Great Migration /
In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest's victory was astonishin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. From party to race
- History, memory, and one man's vote
- Setting agendas, demanding rights, and the black press
- Women's rights, the World's Fair, and activists on the national stage
- Challenging urban space, organizing labor
- Virtue, vice, and building the machine
- Representation and "race men"
- Epilogue. Film, history, and the birth of a black political culture.