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Catherine Mary Douge Williams
Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists
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 Americans to colonize African nations. He helped found the Union Society of Albany, Troy, and the Vicinity, which lobbied the New York State legislature to approve black male suffrage in 1837. Its members also worked to increase African Americans' access to education and vocational training in the ca
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Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white 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 Middle 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
Nancy Cott Jane Sherron De Hart John D'Emilio Linda K. Kerber Annelise Orleck Nell Irvin Painter Janice Radway Robert Reid-Pharr Noliwe Rooks Barbara Sicherman Cheryl Wall E M E R I T A BOARD M E M B E R S
Cathy N Davidson Sara Evans Annette Kolodny Wendy Martin Guided by feminist and antiracist perspectives, this series examines the construction and influence of gender and sexuality within thefull range of Americas cultures. Investigating in deep context the ways in which gender works with and against such mar
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Written by: Glenda Gilmore, University University
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