Research Paper on:
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore's Gender and Jim Crow

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about how African American women experienced conditions that were perhaps much more difficult than African American males, or white females. African American women were not only seen as less than  whites but less than men, putting them in a position of extreme oppression. In a recent book, however, we are given a look into the very unique and powerful world  of the African American woman during a period of time associated with "Jim Crow," a condescending title given to the African American people, predominantly the men. This book is "Gender  and Jim Crow" and it is written by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. The following paper provides a review of that book. Gender and Jim Crow "Gender and Jim Crow" is  a book which analyzes the roles of class, race, and gender in the Southern states political forum just prior to the 1900s. It also discusses the women suffrage movement and  the involvement of the African American woman in this realm of society. As such her work focuses on the work of women, primarily African American women, in regards to changes  that occurred politically and socially. Her work focuses a great deal on the middle class African American woman and illustrates how their civic and political involvement truly made some powerful  changes for the African American, as well as women in the country. In essence, many of these changes served to create the foundation that would admit the Civil Rights Movement  of the 50s and the 60s. One illustration involves the Womans Christian Temperance Union. Gilmore argues that the women, both white and black, worked together for very similar agendas in  order to strengthen their goals and successes. Interestingly enough, Gilmores work focuses on how the African American male was an entity that was seen as evil and frightening