Freedom's ballot : African American political struggles in Chicago from abolition to the Great Migration /
In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest's victory was astonishin...
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2014]
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