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Princess of the Hither Isles, a black suffragist's story from the Jim Crow south, Adele Logan Alexander

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Princess of the Hither Isles, a black suffragist's story from the Jim Crow south, Adele Logan Alexander

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-358) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

genealogical tables

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Princess of the Hither Isles

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1089896623

Responsibility statement

Adele Logan Alexander

Sub title

a black suffragist's story from the Jim Crow south

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

Table Of Contents

Legacies -- The people who can fly -- Susan's stories -- The Hunts' war -- School days -- Trains, rains, pedagogy, and savagery -- The Hither Isles -- Vanished -- Obstreperous women -- Of the genius and training of black folk -- Up from slavery, off to the white house -- Minds, bodies, and souls -- Recalled to life -- Live not on evil -- Reckless and insubordinate -- The princess and the pen -- Firestorm -- Exile -- Flight -- After the fall -- "What a strange thing is 'race' and family, stranger still"

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