Bibliograph

Fighting chance, the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America, Faye E. Dudden

Type

Label

Fighting chance, the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America, Faye E. Dudden

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-273) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fighting chance

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

687683206

Responsibility statement

Faye E. Dudden

Sub title

the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America

Summary

Discusses the falling-out between women's and African-American suffrage advocates during the Reconstruction era, examining the political culture in the United States during the nineteenth century, and describing how local Republicans sought to defeat both causes by setting the groups against each other

Table Of Contents

The age is ripe for the woman question -- Black rights, women's rights, and civil war -- The "Negro's Hour" -- The struggle for equal rights -- Kansas -- Revolutionary journalism and political opportunism -- The fight over the Fifteenth Amendment

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