TY - BOOK AU - Bergeson-Lockwood,Millington W. TI - Race over party: black politics and partisanship in late nineteenth-century Boston SN - 9781469640426 AV - F73.9.N4 B47 2018eb U1 - 323.1196/073074461 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - African Americans KW - Massachusetts KW - Boston KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Political activity KW - Partisanship KW - Political parties KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Noirs américains KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Activité politique KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom & Security KW - Civil Rights KW - bisacsh KW - Human Rights KW - Political Process KW - General KW - fast KW - United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; An atmosphere more liberal, although by no means unbiased : black Boston in the late nineteenth century -- No peace until the suffrage question is settled : black politics in the age of Reconstruction -- Vote, that the work might be finished : black electoral politics and the presidential election of 1872 -- You will find the colored voters on the Butler ship this fall : urban politics and conflicts over African American partisanship -- A recognized and respected part of the body politic : Grover Cleveland and pursuit of patronage -- For Ireland's cause : black and Irish political coalition building -- Let us grow strong by organization and earnest cooperation : anti-lynching and independent politics in an era of mass organizing -- Faithfulness to the race will prove to most of us the graveyard of our hopes and aspirations : the tragedy of black partisanship and search for solidarity N2 - In late-nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post-Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon which black Bostonians tested the promise of equality in America's democracy UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1789457 ER -