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Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Against Election‐Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895.

This article examines testimony about Black rural women's physical, sometimes violent, interventions in Reconstruction era South Carolina elections to illuminate the relationship between race, space and gender in shaping power and access to it. Election‐day ballot boxes became identified as spaces o...

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Published in:Gender & History Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 875 - 884
Main Author: Downs, Gregory P.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2025
Subjects:
Elections
Polling places
African American women
Segregation
Race
Gender
North Carolina
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