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Autore |
Materson Lisa G |
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Titolo |
For the freedom of her race [[electronic resource] ] : Black women and electoral politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 / / Lisa G. Materson |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0595-3 |
0-8078-9403-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African American women - Illinois - Political activity - 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 |
Illinois Politics and government 1865-1950 |
Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government To 1950 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-320) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Tomorrow You Will Go to the Polls: Women's Voting in Chicago in 1894; 2 Because Her Parents Had Never Had the Chance: Southern Migrant Politics during the 1910's; 3 Profit from the Mistakes of Men: National Party Politics, 1920-1924; 4 The Prohibition Issue as a Smoke Screen: The Failure of Racial Uplift Ideology and the 1928 Election; 5 Political Recognition for Themselves and Their Daughters: The Campaigns of Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1927-1930; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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