03853nam 2200769 a 450 991045540730332120200520144314.01-4696-0595-30-8078-9403-6(CKB)1000000000787216(EBL)454823(OCoLC)435526825(SSID)ssj0000156753(PQKBManifestationID)11158335(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156753(PQKBWorkID)10131329(PQKB)11330186(MiAaPQ)EBC454823(OCoLC)966875476(MdBmJHUP)muse48390(Au-PeEL)EBL454823(CaPaEBR)ebr10313966(CaONFJC)MIL930843(EXLCZ)99100000000078721620080819d2009 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrFor the freedom of her race[electronic resource] Black women and electoral politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 /Lisa G. MatersonChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20091 online resource (361 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-0089-7 0-8078-3271-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-320) and index.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; IndexFocusing 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, suffragiAfrican American womenIllinoisPolitical activityHistoryAfrican AmericansSuffrageIllinoisHistoryAfrican American churchesPolitical aspectsIllinoisHistoryAfrican AmericansMigrationsHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsIllinoisHistorySex rolePolitical aspectsIllinoisHistoryElectionsIllinoisHistoryPolitical partiesUnited StatesHistoryIllinoisPolitics and government1865-1950Chicago (Ill.)Politics and governmentTo 1950Electronic books.African American womenPolitical activityHistory.African AmericansSuffrageHistory.African American churchesPolitical aspectsHistory.African AmericansMigrationsHistory.African AmericansCivil rightsHistory.Sex rolePolitical aspectsHistory.ElectionsHistory.Political partiesHistory.323.1196/0730773Materson Lisa G1040812MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455407303321For the freedom of her race2463967UNINA