Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood African American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: New York Univ Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/1996
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""Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood" explores the complexities of the ideologies and actions behind the slogan 'lifting as we climb.' Knupfer's study describes how middle-class African American women in Chicago used their clubs to respond to both the social welfare needs of a quickly expanding segregated community and their own intellectual and social growth".--Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Memphis.
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