Colored Travelers : Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War /

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"Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 10...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel restrictions.
Social conditions.
Freedom of movement.
African Americans > Travel.
African Americans > Civil rights.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Libre circulation des personnes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Voyages > États-Unis.
Travel restrictions > United States > History > 19th century.
Freedom of movement > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Travel > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. These were "colored travelers," activists who relied on steamships, stagecoaches, and railroads to expand their networks and to fight slavery and racism. This book tells the story of how the basic act of traveling emerged as a front line in the battle for African American equal rights before the Civil War"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9781469628592

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