African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965

by Gordon, Ann D.; Collier-Thomas, Bettye (CON); Bracey, John H. Jr. (CON); Avakian, Arlene Voski (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781558490598
• ISBN10: 1558490590
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

"An exciting and pathbreaking collection containing many exceptionally well-written, thought-provoking, insightful essays on a subject that has never before received this concentrated attention". -- Darlene Clark Hine

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 8
African American Women and the Vote: an Overview	p. 10
Notes	p. 22
Architects of a Vision: Black Women and Their Antebellum Quest for Political and Social Equality	p. 24
Notes	p. 38
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Abolitionist and Feminist Reformer 1825-1911	p. 41
Notes	p. 62
To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women's Political History, 1865-1880	p. 66
Notes	p. 87
The: Quest for Justice: African American Women Litigants, 1867-1890	p. 100
Notes	p. 118
Advancement of the Race Through African American Women's Organizations in the South, 1895-1925	p. 120
Notes	p. 132
Clubwomen and Electoral Politics in the 1920s	p. 134
Notes	p. 151
From Progressive Republican to Independent Progressive: the Political Career of Charlotta A. Bass	p. 156
Notes	p. 169
Shining in the Dark: Black Women and the Struggle for the Vote, 1955-1965	p. 172
Notes	p. 189
Directions for Scholarship	p. 200
Notes	p. 208
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 211
Notes on Contributors	p. 215
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