Princess of the Hither Isles : A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South / Adele Logan Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Adele Logan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffragists--Biography.

Suffragists.

African American women--United States--Biography.

African American women.

African American educators--Biography.

African American educators.

Minority women in higher education--United States.

Minority women in higher education.

Women--Suffrage--United States.

Women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute but also joined the segregated woman suffrage movement, passing for white in order to fight for the rights of people of color. Her determination-as a wife, mother, scholar, and activist -to challenge the draconian restraints of race and gender generated conflicts that precipitated her tragic demise. Historian Adele Logan Alexander-Adella Hunt Logan's granddaughter-portrays Adella, her family, and contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Alexander bridges the chasms that frustrate efforts to document the lives of those who traditionally have been silenced, weaving together family lore, historical research, and literary imagination into a riveting, multigenerational family saga.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Genealogies

Introduction. Legacies

ONE. The People Who Can Fly

TWO. Susan's Stories

THREE. The Hunts' War

FOUR. School Days

FIVE. Trains, Rains, Pedagogy, and Savagery

SIX. The Hither Isles

SEVEN. Vanished

EIGHT. Obstreperous Women

NINE. Of the Genius and Training of Black Folk

TEN. Up from Slavery, Off to the White House

ELEVEN. Minds, Bodies, and Souls

TWELVE. Recalled to Life

THIRTEEN. Live Not on Evil

FOURTEEN. Reckless and Insubordinate

FIFTEEN. The Princess and the Pen

SIXTEEN. Firestorm

SEVENTEEN. Exile

EIGHTEEN. Flight

NINETEEN. After the Fall

AFTERWORD. "What a Strange Thing Is 'Race,' and Family, Stranger Still"

Rationale, Methods, Sources, and Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300244847

OCLC:

1125195281