Right to ride [electronic resource] : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Blair L. M. Kelley.
By: Kelley, Blair Murphy.
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BookSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture: Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010Description: xii, 256 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- History | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History | Segregation in transportation -- United States -- History | Boycotts -- United States -- History | United States -- Race relations -- History | New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History | Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations -- History | Savannah (Ga.) -- Race relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.1196/073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
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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