Race man : the rise and fall of the "fighting editor," John Mitchell, Jr. /
"Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, John Mitchell Jr. was also involved in a number of civil rights crusades that seem more contemporary to the 1950s and 1960s than the turn of that century. He led a boycott against segregated streetcars in 1904 and fought residential seg...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The making of a "colored gentleman"
- "Colored teachers for colored schools"
- Founding The planet
- "Lynch law must go!"
- A manly protest
- The politics of Jackson Ward
- "No officers, no fight!"
- Disfranchisement
- "Did God call the pastor?"
- Jim Crow and race pride
- The lure of fraternalism
- "A sane and sensible businessman"
- The perils of prosperity
- Collapse
- Epilogue.