Author: Illinois. Bureau of Employment SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest
Author: Wanda A. HendricksPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
..". Hendricks adds greatly to our understanding of change and continuity in this important period of women's history." -- American Historical Review From 1890 to 1920, African American club women in Illinois and other Midwestern states created hundreds of female associations and became social and political agents of reform and community uplift. Through their own volunteerism and fundraising they combated the problems of homelessness, unemployment, illiteracy, and poor health care that plagued their communities. The Illinois club women also played a primary role in the election of the first black alderman in Chicago. This is their inspiring story.
A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
Author: Christiana Holmes TillsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Women Workers in Illinois
Author: Illinois. Bureau of Employment SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
For the Freedom of Her Race
Author: Lisa G. MatersonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932_a period that is often described as the nadir of black life in Ame
Illinois Women Novelists in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Bernice E. GallagherPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252020650
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Women of Conscience
Author: Janet Duitsman CorneliusPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570037467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Prologue: The diary of Mary Forbes -- Church ladies -- Sisters of the club -- Board ladies -- Currents of reform -- "A robust, gritty crew"--"Sin City" and its reformers -- "Forces to be reckoned with"--Epilogue: The diary of Doris Zook
Women Workers in Illinois
Author: Illinois Women in the Civil War
Author: Alta Rose WoodsWho's Who in Illinois
Author: Agness Geneva GilmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258591137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women
Author: Lyndee HendersonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461748402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women chronicles the stories of twelve Illinois women who lived in the era of True Womanhood and dedicated themselves to charity toward family and strangers. Unwittingly, these women forged a legacy that expanded well beyond Illinois' borders. From First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln's devotion to country to ballroom dancer Irene Castle's fight for animal rights, the women of Illinois acted with progressive vision. Meet the wife of the Mormon Prophet, Emma Hale Smith, who challenged ideology; Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, the model of usefulness;Myra Bradwell, considered America's first woman lawyer; and African American entrepreneur Annie Minerva Malone, who built a beauty empire. Born before the dawn of the twentieth century, the women herein paved the way for future generations. Author Lyndee Jobe Henderson presents absorbing biographies filled with rarely published details.