Jim Crow Capital
Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy
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The University of North Carolina Press
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
Local policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to exercise their new franchise. But when congressmen abolished local governance in the 1870s, they set the precedent for southern disfranchisement. In the aftermath of this process, memories of voting and citizenship rights inspired a new generation of Washingtonians to restore local government in their city and lay the foundation for black equality across the nation. And women were at the forefront of this effort.
Here Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy tells the story of how African American women in D.C. transformed civil rights politics in their freedom struggles between 1920 and 1945. Even though no resident of the nation's capital could vote, black women seized on their conspicuous location to testify in Congress, lobby politicians, and stage protests to secure racial justice, both in Washington and across the nation. Women crafted a broad vision of citizenship rights that put economic justice, physical safety, and legal equality at the forefront of their political campaigns. Black women's civil rights tactics and victories in Washington, D.C., shaped the national postwar black freedom struggle in ways that still resonate today.
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History of Black Sororities, History of Monument and Memorials in Washington, D.C., History of Transportation Segregation, African American Women's Political History, History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, History of the National Association of Colored Women, History of the Civil Rights Movement in Washington, D.C., African American Women's Labor History, History of African Americans in Washington, D.C., History of Women and Police Brutality, African American Women's History, African American Women's Civil Rights History, History of the Sit-In Movement, History of Congressional Lobbying, History of, History of Washington, D.C., History of the Young Women’s Christian Association