Jim Crow capital : women and black freedom struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945 /

Jim Crow capital : women and black freedom struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Murphy, Mary-Elizabeth B., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:	English
Series:	North Carolina scholarship online North Carolina scholarship online.
Subject:	African American women political activists -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. African American women political activists. African Americans -- Civil rights. African Americans -- Segregation. Race relations. Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Washington (D.C.) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12020701

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ISBN:	9781469646732 1469646730 9781469646749 1469646749 9781469646718 1469646714 9781469646725 1469646722
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from electronic title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed August 7, 2019).
Summary:	"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"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Murphy, Mary-Elizabeth B. Jim Crow capital. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469646718

Table of Contents:

The women will be factors in the present campaign : women's national politics in the 1920s
The eyes of the world are upon us : the politics of lynching
Make Washington safe for negro womanhood : the politics of police brutality
Women riot for jobs : the politics of economic justice
Washington needs the vote : women's campaigns for civil rights in the 1930s
Jim Crow must go : civil rights struggles during World War II.