Author: Theodore Calvin PeasePublisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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The County Archives of the State of Illinois
Author: Theodore Calvin PeasePublisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Inventory of the County Archives of Illinois
Author: Illinois Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
From Slave to State Legislator
Author: David A JoensPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809330601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Illinois State Historical Society Superior Achievement Award, 2013 As the first African American elected to the Illinois General Assembly, John W. E. Thomas was the recognized leader of the state’s African American community for nearly twenty years and laid the groundwork for the success of future Black leaders in Chicago politics. Despite his key role in the passage of Illinois’ first civil rights act and his commitment to improving his community against steep personal and political barriers, Thomas’s life and career have been long forgotten by historians and the public alike. This fascinating full-length biography—the first to address the full influence of Thomas or any Black politician from Illinois during the Reconstruction Era—is also a pioneering effort to explain the dynamics of African American politics and divisions within the Black community in post–Civil War Chicago. In From Slave to State Legislator, David A. Joens traces Thomas’s trajectory from a slave owned by a doctor’s family in Alabama to a prominent attorney believed to be the wealthiest African American man in Chicago at the time of his death in 1899. Providing one of the few comprehensive looks at African Americans in Chicago during this period, Joens reveals how Thomas’s career represents both the opportunities available to African Americans in the postwar period and the limits still placed on them. When Thomas moved to Chicago in 1869, he started a grocery store, invested in real estate, and founded the first private school for African Americans before becoming involved in politics. From Slave to State Legislator provides detailed coverage of Thomas’s three terms in the legislature during the 1870s and 1880s, his multiple failures to be nominated for reelection, and his loyalty to the Republican Party at great political cost, calling attention to the political differences within a Black community often considered small and homogenous. Even after achieving his legislative legacy—the passage of the first state civil rights law—Thomas was plagued by patronage issues and an increasingly bitter split with the African American community frustrated with slow progress toward true equality. Drawing on newspapers and an array of government documents, Joens provides the most thorough review to date of the first civil rights legislation and the two controversial “colored conventions” chaired by Thomas. Joens cements Thomas’s legacy as a committed and conscientious lawmaker amid political and personal struggles. In revealing the complicated rivalries and competing ambitions that shaped Black northern politics during the Reconstruction Era, Joens shows the long-term impact of Thomas’s friendship with other burgeoning African American political stars and his work to get more black representatives elected. The volume is enhanced by short biographies of other key Chicago African American politicians of the era.
The County Archives of the State of Illinois
Author: Theodore Calvin PeasePublisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Inventory of the State Archives of Illinois
Author: Illinois Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Inventory of the State Archives of Illinois: The State Council of Defense of Illinois, 1917-1919
Author: Illinois Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois
Author: George FlowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albion (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Illinois Census Returns, 1810 and 1818
Author: Margaret Cross NortonPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806302615
Category : Census records
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The 1810 census of the Illinois Territory does not exist in its entirety, but what has survived is given here in full. It lists 1,310 heads of families, and, by age groups, the number of free white males and females in each household as well as the number of other free inhabitants and slaves owned. The total represented is over 7,000 persons. The 1818 census, which is arranged by counties, makes up the bulk of this work. It lists over 4,000 heads of families and, for each household, shows the number of free white males over twenty-one, all other white inhabitants, free persons of color, and servants or slaves. This represents an estimated 20,000 persons. In addition, there are notations indicating which heads of households can be found in the federal and state censuses of Illinois for 1820.
Bulletin of Information
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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