Freedom's ballot : African American political struggles in Chicago from abolition to the Great Migration /

Freedom's ballot : African American political struggles in Chicago from abolition to the Great Migration /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Garb, Margaret, author.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Politics and government -- 19th century. African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Politics and government -- 20th century. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Civil rights. African Americans -- Politics and government. Race relations -- Political aspects. Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- Political aspects. Illinois -- Chicago. History.
Format:	Print
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy in original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10036819

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ISBN:	9780226135908 (cloth : alk. paper) 022613590X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226136066 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standard no.:	40023576846

Table of Contents:

Introduction. From party to race
History, memory, and one man's vote
Setting agendas, demanding rights, and the black press
Women's rights, the World's Fair, and activists on the national stage
Challenging urban space, organizing labor
Virtue, vice, and building the machine
Representation and "race men"
Epilogue. Film, history, and the birth of a black political culture.