Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African American Women's Clubs in Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814746713 ISBN 13: 9780814746714

Publisher: NYU Press, 1997

Synopsis

During the Progressive Era, over 150 African American women's clubs flourished in Chicago. Through these clubs, women created a vibrant social world of their own, seeking to achieve social and political uplift by educating themselves and the members of their communities. In politics, they battled legal discrimination, advocated anti-lynching laws, and fought for suffrage. In the tradition of other mothering, in which the the community shares in the care and raising of all its children, the club women established kindergartens, youth clubs, and homes for the elderly.

In Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood, Anne Meis Knupfer documents how the club women created multiple allegiances through social and club networks and sheds light on the life experiences of African American women in urban centers throughout the country. Drawing upon the primary documents of African American newspapers, journals, and speeches of the time, this book chronicles and analyzes the complexity and richness of the African American club women's lives as they lifted while others climbed.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Meis Knupfer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Purdue University.

Review:

”An insightful overview and synthesis of an important aspect of black women's history . . . A useful guide for exploring gender issues and black women's culture in myriad cities across the country.”

-Darlene Clark Hine,Michigan State University

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0814746713
• ISBN 13: 9780814746714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Knupfer Anne M., Silk Leonard