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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778011703321

Autore

Materson Lisa G

Titolo

For the freedom of her race [[electronic resource] ] : Black women and electoral politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 / / Lisa G. Materson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4696-0595-3

0-8078-9403-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196/0730773

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-320) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 that migrating southern black women had on midwestern and national politics, first in the Republican Party and later in the Democratic Party. Materson shows that as African American women migrated beyond the reach of southern white supremacists, they became active voters, canvassers, suffragi