For the freedom of her race : Black women and electoral politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 /

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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Materson, Lisa G. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
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