African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558490582 ISBN 13: 9781558490581

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Synopsis

"An exciting and pathbreaking collection containing many exceptionally well-written, thought-provoking, insightful essays on a subject that has never before received this concentrated attention". -- Darlene Clark Hine

About this title

About the Author:

Ann D. Hordon is editor of the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at Rutgers University. Arlene Voski Avakian (women's studies), Joyce Avrech Berkman (history), and John H. Bracey (Afro-American studies) are professors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Founder and former director for the Mary McLeod Bethune Museum and Archives, Bettye Collier-Thomas is director of the Center for African American History and Culture at Temple University.

Synopsis:

These essays seek to reconceptualize the political history of black women in the USA, and explore how slavery, racial discrimination and gender have shaped the goals that African American women set for themselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1558490582
• ISBN 13: 9781558490581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Gordon Ann D.