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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7570-8
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
“Do You See That Girl?”: The Dependent, the Destitute, and the Delinquent Black Girl
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Published:February 2015
Chapter 1 explores the way black Chicagoans addressed the problems of black girls deemed dependent, delinquent, and destitute. The chapter traces the founding of the first orphanage for black children in Illinois, which led to the establishment of the Amada Smith Industrial School for Colored Girls. The chapter demonstrates how black women leaders argued for black girls’ innocence and value by highlighting their needs, while also deploying the rhetoric of race motherhood. Black women also fought to maintain control of organizations that served black girls because black men’s leadership, as well as white philanthropists, challenged their authority. The community’s treatment...
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