The Political Activities Of Detroit Clubwomen In The 1920s

Author : Jayne Morris-Crowther
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814338162

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The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s by Jayne Morris-Crowther Pdf

In the early 1900s, Detroit's clubwomen successfully lobbied for issues like creating playgrounds for children, building public baths, raising the age for child workers, and reforming the school board and city charter. But when they won the vote in 1918, Detroit's clubwomen, both black and white, were eager to incite even greater change. In the 1920s, they fought to influence public policy at the municipal and state level, while contending with partisan politics, city politics, and the media, which often portrayed them as silly and incompetent. In this fascinating volume, author Jayne Morris-Crowther examines the unique civic engagement of these women who considered their commitment to the city of Detroit both a challenge and a promise. By the 1920s, there were eight African American clubs in the city (Willing Workers, Detroit Study Club, Lydian Association, In As Much Circle of Kings Daughters, Labor of Love Circle of Kings Daughters, West Side Art and Literary Club, Altar Society of the Second Baptist Church, and the Earnest Workers of the Second Baptist Church); in 1921, they joined together under the Detroit Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Nearly 15,000 mostly white clubwomen were represented by the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs, which was formed in 1895 by the unification of the Detroit Review Club, Twentieth Century Club, Detroit Woman's Club, Woman's Historical Club, Clio Club, Wednesday History Club, Hypathia, and Zatema Club. Morris-Crowther begins by investigating the roots of the clubs in pre-suffrage Detroit and charts their growing power. In the end, Morris-Crowther shows that Detroit's clubwomen pioneered new lobbying techniques like personal interviews, and used political education in savvy ways to bring politics to the community level. An appendix contains the 1926 Directory of the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs.

Author : Daniel Amsterdam
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812292732

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Roaring Metropolis by Daniel Amsterdam Pdf

Debates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American government was hardly so simple. Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists roughly a century ago. Far from antigovernment stalwarts, business leaders in cities across the country often advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. They championed public schooling, public health, the construction of libraries, museums, parks, and playgrounds, and decentralized cities filled with freestanding homes—a set of initiatives that they believed would foster political stability and economic growth during an era of explosive, often chaotic, urban expansion. The efforts of businessmen on this front had deep historical roots but bore the most fruit during the 1920s, an era often misconstrued as an antigovernment moment. As Daniel Amsterdam illustrates, public spending soared across urban America during the decade due in part to businessmen's political activism. With a focus on three different cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta—and a host of political groups—organized labor, machine politicians, African American and immigrant activists, middle-class women's groups, and the Ku Klux Klan—Roaring Metropolis traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurture an urban citizenry friendly to capitalism and the will of urban capitalists.

Author : Greg Zipes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472038534

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Justice and Faith by Greg Zipes Pdf

Frank Murphy was a Michigan man unafraid to speak truth to power. Born in 1890, he grew up in a small town on the shores of Lake Huron and rose to become Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, and finally a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. One of the most important politicians in Michigan’s history, Murphy was known for his passionate defense of the common man, earning him the pun “tempering justice with Murphy.” Murphy is best remembered for his immense legal contributions supporting individual liberty and fighting discrimination, particularly discrimination against the most vulnerable. Despite being a loyal ally of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when FDR ordered the removal of Japanese Americans during World War II, Supreme Court Justice Murphy condemned the policy as “racist” in a scathing dissent to the Korematsu v. United States decision—the first use of the word in a Supreme Court opinion. Every American, whether arriving by first class or in chains in the galley of a slave ship, fell under Murphy’s definition of those entitled to the full benefits of the American dream. Justice and Faith explores Murphy’s life and times by incorporating troves of archive materials not available to previous biographers, including local newspaper records from across the country. Frank Murphy is proof that even in dark times, the United States has extraordinary resilience and an ability to produce leaders of morality and courage.

Author : Josiah Rector
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469665771

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Toxic Debt by Josiah Rector Pdf

From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and job discrimination. Then as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries turned those risks into disasters with predatory loans to African American homebuyers, and to an increasingly indebted city government. Following years of cuts in welfare assistance to poor families and a devastating subprime mortgage meltdown, the state of Michigan used municipal debt to justify suspending democracy in majority-Black cities. In Detroit and Flint, austerity policies imposed under emergency financial management deprived hundreds of thousands of people of clean water, with lethal consequences that most recently exacerbated the spread of COVID-19. Toxic Debt is not only a book about racism, capitalism, and the making of these environmental disasters. It is also a history of Detroit's environmental justice movement, which emerged from over a century of battles over public health in the city and involved radical auto workers, ecofeminists, and working-class women fighting for clean water. Linking the histories of urban political economy, the environment, and social movements, Toxic Debt lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit.

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253046499

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Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 by Richard Abel Pdf

A study of how the film industry came to flourish in Detroit in the early years as locals were lured into the new picture theaters. Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Tapping a wealth of primary source material—from newspapers, spatiotemporal maps, and city directories to rare trade journals, theater programs, and local newsreels—Abel shows how entrepreneurs worked to lure moviegoers from Detroit’s diverse ethnic neighborhoods into the theaters. Covering topics such as distribution, programming practices, nonfiction film, and movie coverage in local newspapers, with entr’actes that dive deeper into the roles of key individuals and organizations, this book examines how efforts in regional metropolitan cities like Detroit worked alongside California studios and New York head offices to bolster a mass culture of moviegoing in the United States.

Author : Jon K. Lauck
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806191409

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The Good Country by Jon K. Lauck Pdf

At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest’s formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation’s history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern “squares” center stage—an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck’s cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest’s dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The “good country” was, of course, not the “perfect country,” and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest’s openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Michigan
ISBN : MINN:31951P011744159

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Michigan History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jayne Morris-Crowther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political participation
ISBN : MSU:31293021259035

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"A Challenge and a Promise" by Jayne Morris-Crowther Pdf

Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110530674

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2013 by Massimo Mastrogregori Pdf

Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.

Author : Karen Farnham Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Power (Social sciences)
ISBN : MSU:31293023206893

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Ready to Work by Karen Farnham Madden Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131533668

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121656917

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The Michigan Historical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469611006

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Remaking Respectability by Victoria W. Wolcott Pdf

In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have been the male industrial workers who labored on the city's automobile assembly lines. African American women have largely been absent from traditional narratives of the Great Migration because they were excluded from industrial work. By placing these women at the center of her study, Victoria Wolcott reveals their vital role in shaping life in interwar Detroit. Wolcott takes us into the speakeasies, settlement houses, blues clubs, storefront churches, employment bureaus, and training centers of Prohibition- and depression-era Detroit. There, she explores the wide range of black women's experiences, focusing particularly on the interactions between working- and middle-class women. As Detroit's black population grew exponentially, women not only served as models of bourgeois respectability, but also began to reshape traditional standards of deportment in response to the new realities of their lives. In so doing, Wolcott says, they helped transform black politics and culture. Eventually, as the depression arrived, female respectability as a central symbol of reform was supplanted by a more strident working-class activism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Historians
ISBN : WISC:89077186567

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Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians by Anonim Pdf

Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211247

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Hine Sight by Darlene Clark Hine Pdf

A collection of 14 essays by Hine (American history, Michigan State U.) from the past 14 years, covering African-American women's history. Topics include female slave resistance, Black migration to the urban Midwest, 19th-century Black women physicians, and the Black studies movement. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR