How Did African-American Women
Define Their Citizenship
at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893?
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Abstract
Introduction
Newspaper Articles
Sketches
of African American Newspapers
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1: "Women at the World's Fair; The Lady Managers Explain Their Attitude. Dissensions
Among Afro-Americans the Reason for Not Appointing a National Representative
--No Discrimination on Account of Color," New York Age, 24 October
1891
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2: "The Women and the World's Fair," 24 October 1891
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3: "The Women and the Exposition," 7 November 1891
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4: "World's Fair Doings," 19 December 1891
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5: "The World's Fair," 16 April 1892
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6: "A Great Slight To The Race," 30 April 1892
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7: "Boom-De-Ra," 18 March 1893
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8: "Our World's Fair Representation," 18 March 1893
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9: "No 'Nigger Day,' No 'Nigger Pamphlet!'" 25 March 1893
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10: "World's Fair Appeal," 15 April 1893
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11: "World's Fair Pamphlets," 22 April 1893
Speeches by African American
Women at the World's Congress
of Representative Women, 15-21 May 1893
The World's Congress of Representative Women
(Title Page Graphic)
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12: "Woman's Political Future--Address By Frances E. W. Harper of Virginia"
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13: "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since
the Emancipation Proclamation--An Address by Fannie Barrier Williams of Illinois"
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14: "Discussion of the Same Subject by Mrs. A. J. Cooper of Washington, D.
C."
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15: "Discussion Continued by Fannie Jackson Coppin of Pennsylvania--Also includes
a short address made by Hon. Frederick Douglass directly after Coppin's address"
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16: "The Organized Efforts of the Colored Women of The South to Improve Their
Condition--An Address By Sarah J. Early of Tennessee"
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17: "Discussion of the Same Subject By Hallie Q. Brown"
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18: "Miss Ida B. Wells Informs Our Readers as to the Condition of the World's
Fair Pamphlet Movement. What the Pamphlet Will Be--The Amount of Cash in Hand
and Subscribed--Ohio Afro-Americans Should Do Their Duty at Once and Forward
Something to Aid the Movement," 22 July 1893
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19: "To Tole With Watermelons. A Novel Way to Increase the World's Fair Attendance-'Colored
Folks' Day,'" 22 July 1893
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20: "Frederick Douglass's Speech at Colored American Day," 25 August 1893
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21: Ida B. Wells, "Preface," The Reason Why The Colored American is Not
in the Columbian Exposition,
Chapter One: Frederick
Douglass, "The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature"
Chapter Two: Ida B. Wells,
"Class Legislation"
Chapter Three: Ida B. Wells,
"Convict Lease System"
Chapter Four: Ida B. Wells,
"Lynch Law"
Chapter Five: I. Garland Penn,
"The Progress of The Afro-American Since Emancipation
Chapter Six: F.L. Barnett,
"The Reason Why"
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