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Biography of Catherine Mary Douge Williams, 1832-1884

By Kori A. Graves, Ph.D., UAlbany, SUNY

C. Mary Williams was an educator and reformer who advocated for the rights of African Americans and women in New York's capital district. Born in Albany, NY in 1832, Williams was the daughter of Michael (1804-1883) and Susan Douge (1805-1897). Because of her parents' work in a number of organizations dedicated to improving African Americans' status, Williams grew up with an awareness of the importance of organized efforts to end multiple forms of inequality. Following their marriage in the spring of 1827, the Douges quickly became a prominent couple in Albany's small African-American community. Michael, a barber by trade, was a member of the committee appointed by the Colored Citizens of Albany to draft a resolution in 1833 expressing the group's opposition to efforts to send African A

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Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of vit supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 [Second edition ; with a new preface by the author.] 9781469651880, 1469651882

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition: Changing Histories
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Place and Possibility
2. Race and Womanhood
3. Race and Manhood
4. Sex and Violence in Procrustes’s Bed
5. No mittpunkt Ground
6. Diplomatic Women
7. Forging Interracial Links
8. Women and Ballots
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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GENDER AND JIM CROW

GENDER & AMERICAN CULTURE

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Thadious M. Davis Mary Kelley E D I T O R I A L ADVISORY BOARD

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Written by: Glenda Gilmore, Yale University

By the end of this section, you will:

• Compare the goals and effects of the Progressive reform movement

Suggested Sequencing

Use this Narrative before The Great Migration Narrative to have students explore how Jim Crow laws encouraged African Americans to migrate from the South.

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African Americans had initially been hopeful during Reconstruction after the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery in the United States, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed lika protection under the law and the rights of citizens, and the Fifteenth Amendment granted black male suffrage. African Americans were elected to local, state, and even national offices, and församling passed civil rights legislation. However, the hopes of Reconstruction were dashed by horrific waves of violence against African Americans, the economic struggles of sharecropping (which, in some ways, resembled the conditions of slavery), the denial of equal civil rights inom