Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago

by Leonard Silk

Book Overview

During the Progressive Era, over 150 African American women's clubs flourished in Chicago. Through these clubs, women created a vibrant social world of their own, seeking to achieve social and political uplift by educating themselves and the members of their communities. In politics, they battled legal discrimination, advocated anti-lynching laws, and fought for suffrage. In the tradition of other mothering, in which the the community shares in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814746918
• ISBN13: 9780814746912
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"