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

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

Knupfer, Anne M.
Silk, Leonard

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0814746918
ISBN13: 9780814746912
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jan 1 1997
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

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 the care and raising of all its children, the club women established kindergartens, youth clubs, and homes for the elderly.

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