Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920

Glenda Gilmore is Assistant Professor of American History at Yale University. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 records political and social change in North Carolina from the late nineteenth-century laws depriving black males of the vote to the 1920 women’s suffrage amendment. A seventh-generation North Carolinian, Professor Gilmore concludes that black, middle-class women effected change by working through educational and civic organizations such as temperance and labor unions, building a tradition of political activism that gave rise to the modern civil rights movement.