Jim Crow capital : women and black freedom struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945 /
"Local policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to exercise their new franchise. But when congressmen abolished local governance in the 1870s, they set the precedent for southern disfranchisement. In the...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | North Carolina scholarship online.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The women will be factors in the present campaign : women's national politics in the 1920s
- The eyes of the world are upon us : the politics of lynching
- Make Washington safe for negro womanhood : the politics of police brutality
- Women riot for jobs : the politics of economic justice
- Washington needs the vote : women's campaigns for civil rights in the 1930s
- Jim Crow must go : civil rights struggles during World War II.
