Why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did middle-
and upper-class southern women-black and white-advance from the
private worlds of home and family into public life, eventually
transforming the cultural and political landscape of their community?
Using Galveston as a case study, Elizabeth Hayes Turner asks who where
the women who became activists and eventually led to progressive
reforms and the women sufferage movement. Turner discovers that a
majority of them came from particular congregations, but class status
had as much to do with reofrm as did religious motivation. The
Hurricane of 1900, disfranchisement of black voters, and the creation
of city commission government gave white women the leverage they
needed to fight for a women's agenda for the city. Meanwhile, African
American women, who were excluded from open civic association with
whites, created their own organizations, implemented their own goals,
and turned their energies to resisting and alleviating the numbing
effects of racism. Separately white and black women created their own
activist communities. Together, however, they changed the face of this
New South city. Based on an exhaustive database of membership in
community organizations compiled by the author from local archives,
_Women, Culture, and Community_ will appeal to students of race
relations in the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, and
religious history.
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ISBN
9780198028055
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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