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African Americans--Suffrage--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History, Suffragists--United States--History, African American women social reformers--History, African American women--Political activity--History.
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1997
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JK1924.A47 1997eb
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324.6/23/08996073
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African Americans--Suffrage--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History, Suffragists--United States--History, African American women social reformers--History, African American women--Political activity--History.
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African American Women and the Vote, 18371965
Edited by Ann D. Gordon with Bettye Collier-Thomas John H. Bracey Arlene Voski Avakian Joyce Avrech Berkman
University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1997 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC: 96-14881 ISBN 1-55849-058-2 (cloth); 1-55849-059-0 (pbk.) Designed by Mary Mendell Set in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data African American women and the vote, 18371965 / edited by Ann D. Gordon with Bettye Collier-Thomas ... [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55849-058-2 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 1-55849-059-0 (alk. paper) 1. Afro-AmericansSuffrageHistory. 2. WomenSuffrageUnited StatesHistory. 3. SuffragistsUnited StatesHistory. 4. Afro American women social reformersHistory. 5. Afro-American women Political activityHistory. I. Gordon, Ann D. (Ann Dexter) II. Collier-Thomas, Bettye. JK1924.A47 1997 324.6'23'08996073dc2096-1488 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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To the Memory of Sidney Kaplan and Helen Harris Bracey
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Contents
Acknowledgments
viii
Introduction
Ann D. Gordon
1
African American Women and the Vote: An Overview
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
10
Architects of a Vision: Black Women and Their Antebellum Quest for Political and Social Equality
Willi Coleman
24
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Abolitionist and Feminist Reformer, 18251911
Bettye Collier-Thomas
41
To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women's Political History, 18651880
Elsa Barkley Brown
66
The Quest for Justice: African American Women Litigants, 18671890
Janice Sumler-Edmond
100
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Advancement of the Race through African American Women's Organizations in the South, 18951925
Cynthia Neverdon-Morton
120
Clubwomen and Electoral Politics in the 1920s
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
134
From Progressive Republican to Independent Progressive: The Political Career of Charlotta A. Bass
Gerald R. Gill
156
Shining in the Dark: Black Women and the Struggle for the Vote, 19551965
Martha Prescod Norman
172
Directions for Scholarship
Bettina Aptheker
200
Suggestions for Further Reading
211
Notes on Contributors
215
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Acknowledgments
The original benefactors of this volume are the people and institutions who made possible the 1987 conference on Afro-American Women and the Vote, 1837 to 1965, for which these essays were first written. The conference was funded by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, the Charles H. Revson Foundation, and the University's Alumni Association Board of Directors. The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts cosponsored the event.
For their vision of an outline of African American women's history and knowledge of their field, we thank members of the planning conference who in 1986 developed the historical outline evident still in these essays. They are Sylvia M. Jacobs, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ellen C. DuBois, Bettina Aptheker, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, and Bettye Collier-Thomas.
A number of excellent contributions to the conference itself could not be included in this book but deserve notice and thanks nonetheless. Mary Frances Berry launched the event with an address on politics that wove together her command of history and her immediate experience in Washington, D.C. Political practice was again the topic at the end of the conference, in a round-table discussion with Patricia Facey, League of Women Voters; Gracia Hillman, Na-
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