For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932

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For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932
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Flower, Lucy Louisa Coues
Flower, Lucy Louisa Coues
Lucy Flower was the first woman elected to a state office in Illinois. Flower was elected to board of trustees of the University of Illinois in 1894. Flower was a seasoned activist with especial concern for poor and deliquent children in Chicago. In 1891 Flower was appointed to the Chicago Board of Education. Flower came from a reforming family. Her parents were colleagues of abolitionists and ...