AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE LAND: EMANCIPATION AND THE STRUGGLE OVER EQUALITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Kate Masur

ISBN 10: 0807834149 / ISBN 13: 9780807834145

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2010

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Large 8vo; in publisher s blue cloth boards, with dustjacket; [xii]. [1], 2-364 pages, including Index.~~From the flap: "Masur reveals Washington as a laboratory for social policy at a pivotal moment in American history."~~Review copy with material from The University of North Carolina Press laid in. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE LAND: EMANCIPATION AND THE STRUGGLE OVER EQUALITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807834149
• ISBN 13: 9780807834145
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine binding
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • History & Military

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Synopsis

In An Example for All the Land, Kate Masur offers the first major study of Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique battleground in the American struggle over equality. After slavery's demise, the question of racial equality produced a multifaceted debate about who should have which rights and privileges, and in which places. Masur shows that black Washingtonians demanded public respect for their organizations and equal access to streetcars, public schools, the vote, and municipal employment. Congressional Republicans, in turn, passed local legislation that made the capital the nation's vanguard of racial equality, drawing the attention of woman suffragists hoping for similar experiments in women's rights. But a conservative coalition soon mobilized and, in the name of reform and modernization, sought to underm

About the Author

Kate Masur is assistant professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University.