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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780226135908
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Freedom's Ballot : African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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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 astonishing. It did not, however, surprise the unruly group of black activists who had been working for several decades to win representation on the city council. Freedom's Ballot is the history of three generations of African American activists--the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs--who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. This is a complex and important story of how black political power was institutionalized in Chicago in the half-century following the Civil War. Margaret Garb explores the social and political fabric of Chicago, revealing how the physical makeup of the city was shaped by both political corruption and racial empowerment--in ways that can still be seen and felt today.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
022613590x
ISBN-13
9780226135908
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038285074
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Freedom's Ballot : African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F548.9.N4g37 2014
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In this fascinating and original study, Margaret Garb traces the rise of black politics in Chicago from its mid-19th century origins to the early twentieth century. The book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the long civil rights movement on northern soil., Garb skillfully traces changes in both the citywide political system and the black response to the emergence of machine politics. . . . Freedom's Ballot is an important contribution to the growing body of literature on African American political development., This is a well-written book. Far too often, historians write primarily for other historians, and jargon and academic-speak can obfuscate rather than illuminate our history. Thanks to Garb's deep research, her lively prose and her narrative virtuosity, her compelling story of African-American pioneers in the ongoing--and unfinished--struggle for civil rights is that rare book that adds something new to our national conversation about race, cities and America, for scholars and general readers alike., In this fascinating and original study, Margaret Garb traces the rise of black politics in Chicago from its mid-nineteenth-century origins to the early twentieth century. The book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the long civil rights movement on northern soil., In a masterful work that reveals the beauty of the historian's craft, Garb illuminates the ways in which politics and the political had multiple meanings for African Americans and their quest for freedom., By bringing post-bellum black Northern politics out from beneath the shadows of the South, Freedom's Ballot manages to radically alter the common story of the era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow. For Chicago's African American leaders, what W.E.B. DuBois called that 'magnificent drama' of ex-slaves to bring democracy to America, took on a very different character. As Margaret Garb powerfully demonstrates, uplift ideology and demands for inclusion took a backseat to more militant goals of political power and racial solidarity. Anyone interested in how the Windy City became a national center of black political power must read this book., This is a well-written book. Far too often, historians write primarily for other historians, and jargon and academic-speak can obfuscate rather than illuminate our history. Thanks to Garb's deep research, her lively prose and her narrative virtuosity, her compelling story of African-American pioneers in the ongoing--and unfinished--struggle for civil rights is that rare book that adds something new to our national conversation about race, cities and America, for scholars and general readers alike., By bringing post-bellum black Northern politics out from beneath the shadows of the South, Freedom's Ballot manages to radically alter the common story of the era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow. For Chicago's African American leaders, what W.E.B. DuBois called that 'magnificent drama' of ex-slaves to bring democracy to America, took on a very different character. As Margaret Garb powerfully demonstrates, uplift ideology and demands for inclusion took a backseat to more militant goals of political power and racial solidarity. Anyone interested in how the Windy City became a national center of black political power must read this book., In this fascinating and original study, Margaret Garb traces the rise of black politics in Chicago from its mid-nineteenth-century origins to the early twentieth century. The book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the long civil rights movement on northern soil., In this fascinating and original study, Margaret Garb traces the rise of black politics in Chicago from its mid-19th-century origins to the early twentieth century. The book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the long civil rights movement on northern soil.
Table of Content
INTRODUCTION / From Party to Race ONE / History, Memory, and One Man's Vote TWO / Setting Agendas, Demanding Rights, and the Black Press THREE / Women's Rights, the World's Fair, and Activists on the National Stage FOUR / Challenging Urban Space, Organizing Labor FIVE / Virtue, Vice, and Building the Machine SIX / Representation and "Race Men" EPILOGUE / Film, History, and the Birth of a Black Political Culture Acknowledgments Appendix 1: African American Political Leaders, 1870-1920 Appendix 2: Election Results for Mayoral and Aldermanic Candidates in the First, Second, and Third Wards, 1900-1920 Notes Index
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
American Government / Local, Civil Rights, History & Theory, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Lccn
2013-039202
Dewey Decimal
323.1196073077311
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
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