African American women in the struggle for the vote, 1850-1920 / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn.

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.

324.623089 Terborg-

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998]

©1998

xii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Blacks in the diaspora

Blacks in the diaspora.

Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History.

African American women -- Suffrage -- History.

Suffragists -- United States -- History.

African American women social reformers -- History.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-183) and index.

Revisiting the question of race in the woman suffrage movement -- African American women in the first generation of woman suffragists : 1850-1869 -- African American woman suffragists finding their own voices : 1870s and 1880s -- Suffrage strategies and ideas : African American women leaders respond during "the nadir" -- Mobilizing to win the vote : African American women's organizations -- Anti-black woman suffrage tactics and African American women's responses -- African American women as voters and candidates -- The nineteenth amendment and its meaning for African American women.

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9780253333780 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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