Freedom′s Ballot – African American Political Struggles in Chica
Freedom's BallotAfrican American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration\nAuthor(s): Margaret Garb\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226135908, 978-0226135908\nSynopsis\nIn the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar DePriest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, DePriest's victory was astonishing. It did not, however, surprise the unruly group of black activists who had been working for several decades to win representation on the city council. Freedom's Ballot is the history of three generations of African American activists - the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs - who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. This is a complex and important story of how black p.
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