Right to ride : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Blair L.M. Kelley.
Material type: TextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780807895818
- 0807895814
- 9781469604107
- 1469604108
- 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 -- History
- Noirs américains -- Droits -- Histoire
- Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Ségrégation dans le transport -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Boycottage -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- Histoire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Boycotts
- Civil rights movements
- Race relations
- Segregation in transportation
- Georgia -- Savannah
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- United States
- Virginia -- Richmond
- 323.1196/073 22
- E185.61 .K355 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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 freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance.
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