A01=Wanda A. Hendricks
Author_Wanda A. Hendricks
biracial
black aristocrats
black nurses
Booker T. Washington
Brockport
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Celia Parker Woolley
Chicago
Chicago Woman's Club
Chicago Woman’s Club
club women
D.C.
domestic labor
elitism and class
Elizabeth Lindsay Davis
Ella Barrier
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Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Center
General Federation of Women's Clubs
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Hannibal
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Illinois
Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
Illinois Women's Alliance
Illinois Women’s Alliance
immigration
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Jim Crow
migration
Missouri
mixed raced
mulatto
municipal politics
NAACP
NACW
National Association of Colored Women
New England Conservatory of Music
New York
Oscar Stanton DePriest
Phyllis Wheatley Home
Prudence Crandall Club
racial uplift
reform
Samuel Laing Williams
Suffrage
teaching
Unitarians
Washington
Woman's Era
woman's suffrage
Woman’s Era
woman’s suffrage
World's Columbian Exposition 1893
World’s Columbian Exposition 1893
Product details
- ISBN 9780252079597
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2013
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became "raced" for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. She carried this new awareness to Chicago, where she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations to become a prominent spokesperson for Progressive economic, racial, and gender reforms during the transformative period of industrialization. By highlighting how Williams experienced a set of freedoms in the North that were not imaginable in the South, this clearly-written, widely accessible biography expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.
Wanda A. Hendricks is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina and the author of Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois.
