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African American women and the vote, 1837-1965 / edited by Ann D. Gordon with Bettye Collier-Thomas ... [et al.].
- Title
- African American women and the vote, 1837-1965 / edited by Ann D. Gordon with Bettye Collier-Thomas ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1997.
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- Description
- 217 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Written by leading scholars of African American and women's history, the essays in this volume seek to reconceptualize the political history of black women in the United States by placing them "at the center of our thinking." The book explores how slavery, racial discrimination, and gender shaped the goals that African American women set for themselves, their families, and their race and looks at the political tools at their disposal. By identifying key turning points for black women, the essays create a new chronology and a new paradigm for historical analysis. The chronology begins in 1837 with the interracial meeting of antislavery women in New York City and concludes with the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
- The contributors focus on specific examples of women pursuing a dual ambition: to gain full civil and political rights and to improve the social conditions of African Americans. Together, the essays challenge us to rethink common generalizations that govern much of our historical thinking about the experience of African American women.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-214).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- African American women and the vote : an overview / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- Architects of a vision : black women and their antebellum quest for political and social equality / Willi Coleman -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : abolitionist and feminist reformer, 1825-1911 / Bettye Collier-Thomas -- To catch the vision of freedom : reconstructing Southern black women's political history, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown -- The quest for justice : African American women litigants, 1867-1890 / Janice Sumler-Edmond -- Advancement of the race through African American women's organizations in the South, 1895-1925 / Cynthia Neverdon-Morton -- Clubwomen and electoral politics in the 1920s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- From progressive republican to independent progressive : the political career of Charlotta A. Bass / Gerald R. Gill -- Shining in the dark : black women and the struggle for the vote, 1955-1965 / Martha Prescod Norman -- Directions for scholarship / Bettina Aptheker.
- ISBN
- 1558490582 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1558490590 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96014881^
- OCLC
- 34549080
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library