Title Fighting chance : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America / Faye E. Dudden.

Publication Info.	New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	JK1896 .D79 2011	Available	---

Description	viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-273) and index.
Contents	The age is ripe for the woman question -- Black rights, women's rights, and civil war -- The "Negro's Hour" -- The struggle for equal rights -- Kansas -- Revolutionary journalism and political opportunism -- The fight over the Fifteenth Amendment.
Summary	Discusses the falling-out between women's and African-American suffrage advocates during the Reconstruction era, examining the political culture in the United States during the nineteenth century, and describing how local Republicans sought to defeat both causes by setting the groups against each other.
Subject	Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women -- Suffrage.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Suffrage.
	Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women's rights.
	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	9780199772636 alkaline paper
	0199772630 alkaline paper