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 / / ed. by Anne M. Knupfer, Leonard Silk.

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 battl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Knupfer, Anne M.,
Silk, Leonard,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]
©1997
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB WOMEN'S IDEOLOGIES AND DISCOURSES
  • TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN CHICAGO
  • THREE THE WOMEN'S CLUBS AND POLITICAL REFORM
  • FOUR HOMES FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN, YOUNG WORKING GIRLS, AND THE ELDERLY
  • FIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS
  • SIX LITERARY CLUBS
  • SEVEN SOCIAL CLUBS
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX 1 AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CLUBS, CHICAGO, 1890-1920
  • APPENDIX 2 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB WOMEN, CHICAGO, 1890-1920
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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