Right to ride : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / / Blair L. M. Kelley.

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Superior document:The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Physical Description:xii, 256 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.