Right to Ride : Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson /

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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...

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Autor principal: Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Segregation in transportation.
Race relations.
Civil rights movements.
Boycotts.
African Americans > Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Boycottage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Segregation dans le transport > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire.
Boycotts > United States > History.
Segregation in transportation > United States > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Virginia > Richmond.
United States.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Georgia > Savannah.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Savannah (Ga.) > Race relations > History.
Richmond (Va.) > Race relations > History.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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