Author: Lily Hardy HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Southern Women and Racial Adjustment
Author: Lily Hardy HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Southern Women and Racial Adjustment
Author: Lily Hardy HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46
Author: Nancy Marie RobertsonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252031938
Category : Christian women
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
As the major national biracial women's organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) provided a unique venue for women to respond to American race relations during the first half of the twentieth century. In Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46, Nancy Marie Robertson shows how women of both races employed different understandings of "Christian sisterhood" in their responses. Although the YWCA was segregated at the local level, African American women were able to effectively challenge white women over YWCA racial policies and practices. Robertson argues that from 1906 through 1946, many white women in the association went from seeing segregation as compatible with Christianity and democracy to regarding it as a contradiction of those values. These struggles laid the groundwork for the subsequent civil rights movement. Her analysis relies not only on a large body of records documenting YWCA women at the national and local levels, but also on autobiographical accounts and personal papers from women associated with the YWCA, including Dorothy Height, Lugenia Burns Hope, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Lillian Smith. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White
Jumpin' Jim Crow
Author: Jane DaileyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069121624X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed Jim Crow constantly had to remake itself over time even as white southern politicians struggled to extend its grip. Here, some of the most innovative scholars of southern history question Jim Crow's sway, evolution, and methods over the course of a century. These essays bring to life the southern men and women--some heroic and decent, others mean and sinister, most a mixture of both--who supported and challenged Jim Crow, showing that white supremacy always had to prove its power. Jim Crow was always in motion, always adjusting to meet resistance and defiance by both African Americans and whites. Sometimes white supremacists responded with increased ferocity, sometimes with more subtle political and legal ploys. Jumpin' Jim Crow presents a clear picture of this complex negotiation. For example, even as some black and white women launched the strongest attacks on the system, other white women nurtured myths glorifying white supremacy. Even as elite whites blamed racial violence on poor whites, they used Jim Crow to dominate poor whites as well as blacks. Most important, the book portrays change over time, suggesting that Strom Thurmond is not a simple reincarnation of Ben Tillman and that Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to say no to Jim Crow. From a study of the segregation of household consumption to a fresh look at critical elections, from an examination of an unlikely antilynching campaign to an analysis of how miscegenation laws tried to sexualize black political power, these essays about specific southern times and places exemplify the latest trends in historical research. Its rich, accessible content makes Jumpin' Jim Crow an ideal undergraduate reader on American history, while its methodological innovations will be emulated by scholars of political history generally. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Edward L. Ayers, Elsa Barkley Brown, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Laura F. Edwards, Kari Frederickson, David F. Godshalk, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Stephen Kantrowitz, Nancy MacLean, Nell Irwin Painter, and Timothy B. Tyson.
The Southern Workman
Author: Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The May or June issue of 1900-1939 includes the report of the institute's president for 1900-1939.
Negro Year Book
Author: Negro Yearbook
Author: The New Voice in Race Adjustments
Author: Arcadius McSwain TrawickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In Black and White
Author: Lily Hardy HammondPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820337005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
“Our problem is not racial, but human and economic. . . . We hold the Negro racially responsible for conditions common to all races on his economic plane.” The writings of reformer Lily Hardy Hammond (1859-1925) are filled with such forthright criticisms of southern white attitudes toward African Americans--enough so that her stature as a southern progressive thinker would seem assured. Yet Hammond, who once stood at the intellectual center of the southern women’s social gospel movement and was in her time the South’s most prolific female writer on the “race question,” has been marginalized. This volume reprintsIn Black and White, the most important of Hammond’s ten books, along with a sampling of the dozens of articles she published. Elna C. Green’s biographical introduction tells of Hammond’s marriage to a prominent Methodist minister and educator. It also traces Hammond’s career within the context of prevailing gender and racial attitudes in the Jim Crow South. Hammond, who had roots in Methodist home mission work, was also active in such secular and ecumenical organizations as the Southern Sociological Congress, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hammond worked alongside blacks to promote education, improve living conditions, and stop lynching. As a suffragist and temperance advocate, she urged the leaders of those largely white women’s movements to partner with African Americans. Historians of religion, social science, and race relations will welcome the reintroduction of this remarkable but virtually forgotten figure.
Southern Women and Racial Adjustment (Classic Reprint)
Author: L. H. HammondPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332198467
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Excerpt from Southern Women and Racial Adjustment For the opinions expressed and the conclusions drawn in the following pages the writer alone is responsible; but she wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness to the following women, without whose kindly aid in gathering the facts set forth this paper could scarcely have been written: Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, president of the National Federation of Women's Clubs during the last biennial period; Mrs. Edward McGeliee, Mrs. John I. Moore, Mrs. W. S. Jennings, Miss Helen Norris Cummings, Mrs. Court F. Wood, presidents respectively of the State Federations of Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, Virginia, and the District of Columbia; Mrs. Z. I. Fitzpatrick, late president, and director-for-life of the Georgia State Federation; Mrs. C. P. Orr, formerly president of the Alabama State Federation; Miss Elizabeth Gilman, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Work for Colored People, Baltimore Civic League; Mrs. Gordon Green, president City Federation, Jackson, Miss.; Mrs. John Love, president of City Federation of Clubs and of City Federation of Missionary Societies, Meridian, Miss.; Mrs. W. L. Murdoch, formerly vice-president of the Southern Sociological Congress; Mrs. Leila A. Dillard, State president Georgia W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Allan, chairman of the Committee for Colored Work, Y. W. C. A.; Mrs. W. C. Winsborough, secretary Woman's Home Mission Board, Southern Presbyterian Church; Mrs. B. W. Lipscomb, Home Base secretary Woman's Missionary Council, M. E. Church, South; Mrs. L. S. Arrington and Mrs. W. D. Haas, superintendents Social Service, North Georgia and Louisiana Conferences, Woman's Missionary Council; Mrs. H. M. Wharton, chairman Personal Service Committee, Southern Baptist Woman's Home Mission Board; Mrs. Wm. McGarity, secretary Texas Baptist Home Mission Society; Mrs. Bolton K. Smith, president of the Bishop's Guild, State of Tennessee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.