Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-Of-The-Century ChicagoAnne M. Knupfer, Leonard Silk NYU Press, 1997 M01 1 - 222 pages 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. |
Contents
TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN CHICAGO | |
THREE THE WOMENS CLUBS AND POLITICAL REFORM | |
FOUR HOMES FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN YOUNG WORKING GIRLS AND THE ELDERLY | |
FIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS | |
SIX LITERARY CLUBS | |
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