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Dissertation Information for Lisa Gail Materson

NAME:
- Lisa Gail Materson

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2000)

ADVISORS:
- Ellen Carol DuBois

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Brenda E. Stevenson
- E. Victor Wolfenstein

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Respectable partisans: African American women in electoral politics, 1877 to 1936

Abstract: This dissertation asserts that among African American communities, a tradition of electoral activism within the respected and mixed-gender space of the church facilitated women's participation in party politics between the 1870s and 1930s. In Illinois, this tradition alleviated concerns among middle-class and poor black women that the public work of campaigning would compromise reputations already embattled by disparaging stereotypes. It also subverted exclusive male claims to electoral politics and associations of campaigning with disreputable male venues. African American women in Illinois organized Republican and Democratic meetings at churches and utilized networks of church-affiliated women to canvass the large black voting populations created by the "Great Migration" of southern blacks to the Midwest between the 1890s and 1920s. Both migrant and Illinois-born women believed in the power of the vote and embedded their partisanship within their unfinished struggle against disfranchisement, segregation, and forced labor. They mobilized to place in office candidates committed to the primacy of federal power and the Constitution's enforcement, particularly the Civil Rights Amendments passed decades earlier during Reconstruction.

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