Toward a tenderer humanity and a nobler womanhood
Subtitle: African American women's clubs in turn-of-the-century Chicago
By: Anne Meis Knupfer.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies and clubs; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: African American club women's ideologies and discourses; title: African American communities in Chicago; title: The women's clubs and political reform; title: Homes for dependent children, young working girls, and the elderly; title: African American settlements; title: Literary clubs; title: Social clubs.