Toward A Tenderer Humanity And A Nobler Womanhood

African American Women's Clubs In Turn-of-the-century Chicago

BY ANNE KNUPFER

Brief Description:
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.

NYU 1997 209 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)