Defying Jim Crow : African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960 /

From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship, was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories of fluid race relations and post-Civil W...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Devore, Donald E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Community life > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > History > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The rise and decline of black equality
  • Higher education and individual initiative
  • The religious dimensions of community development
  • The secular dimensions of community development
  • Public education
  • Business and labor
  • Jim Crow attacked
  • Freedom now.

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