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Right to ride : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson /
Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores African Americans' organized efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2010]
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| Colección: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent
- The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy
- Our people, our problem? : Plessy and the divided New Orleans
- Where are our friends? : crumbling alliances and New Orleans streetcar boycott
- Who's to blame? : Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate
- Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott
- Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott
- Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.