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This is a Literature Review study (also classified as: Observational).

August 18, 2025

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

Key Points

Black rural women challenged election-day segregation in South Carolina, asserting their political presence despite exclusion.
Their acts of physical intervention during elections illustrate the intersections of race, gender, and space, highlighting societal norms.
The study examines testimony from the Reconstruction era to assess how these women's actions influenced community dynamics and political power.
Understanding this resistance reveals the complexities of historical gender roles and the fight for access to political spaces.

Abstract

ABSTRACT 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 of gendered exclusion after the enfranchisement of Black adult male residents in 1867 and created expectations of gendered segregation nearby. But Black women violated and tested those norms to claim their role in creating a cohesive, sometimes‐coercive political community.

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Gregory P. Downs (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af4328ad7bf08b1ead2301 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70012

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