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Racism as a Political Tool in the Southern Suffrage Movement


Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era on JSTOR

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Racial Uplift Ideology in the Era of "The Negro Problem"

For example, lynching became a tool of white dominance and racial terror during the 1880s and 1890s, as the overwhelming majority of victims were African ...

The Right to Vote in the South: A Brief History

... political participation was so great that freedmen often put down their tools and ceased working when elections or conventions were being held.

How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of ...

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The Past & Future of American Civil Rights

We are now entering a new, third wave of civil rights in the United States. In this new age, the tools used to advance racial equality in the past are no longer ...

13 Women in White Supremacist Movements in the Century after ...

... suffrage politics, which emerged from the effort to ... 'No Weapon Save Argument': Strategic Frame Amplification in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movements.

Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States

Tools and Resources · Subscribe · Customer Services · News · Oxford Research ... rights Southern politicians. During the 1890s, state anti ...

The complicated history of the women's suffrage movement

... Black suffragists, from joining NAWSA to protect the political ... tools to elevate their voices and advocate for change. Their mission ...

“not as a favor, not as a privilege, but as a right”: woman suffragists ...

While white women often focused on financial independence and respect, black women saw the right to vote as a culmination of the Fifteenth Amendment and a tool ...

A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: Jim Crow Era

... Southern legislatures and used intimidation tactics to suppress black voters. ... The Klan didn't shy away from using burning crosses and other intimidation tools ...

Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022

To account for the differences between covered and non-covered counties, we use a tool called entropy balancing. ... racial discrimination remains ...

Women, Race and Class - The New York Public Library

Frederick Douglass viewed the franchise as an indispensable weapon which could complete ... Black suffrage as a political game. For Douglass, the ballot ...

Right to Vote: Suffrage for Women, African Americans and American ...

Furthermore, after the southern surrender, the Republican Party was eager to grant African Americans the right to vote because they anticipated their votes ...

The South in American Political Development | Annual Reviews

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5 Essential Black Figures In The Women's Suffrage Movement - WGBH

... racial injustice in the South. ... She recognized that the ballot would be an indispensable weapon of defense in the fight for equality.

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement | Origins

... tool against unjust working conditions and for what Polish-born ... political autonomy with those for antiracism, anticolonialism, and black ...

Documenting Reconstruction Violence - Equal Justice Initiative

... South, who stood determined to destroy a politically-empowered Black voting bloc. ... tool of control and intimidation. For all that we can never know about the ...

Books - Women's Voting Rights and the 19th Amendment

... race and looks at the political tools at their disposal. By identifying key turning points for black women, the essays create a new ...

The Political Legacy of American Slavery

These results strengthen when we instrument for the prevalence of slavery using geographic variation in cotton-growing conditions. We consider several ...

By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South | NPT - Nashville PBS

In 1913, they were confronted with the racial politics of the movement ... That doesn't mean that the world changed, that's just the tool with which we can change ...