Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 / Mark R. Schneider ; [new foreword by Zebulon Vance Miletsky].
Boston, the headquarters of radical abolition during the antebellum period, is, paradoxically, often thought of as unfriendly to African-Americans today. In this study of the city's significant role in the fight against racism between 1890 and 1920, Mark Robert Schneider illuminates the vital l...
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| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 262 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Reprint of 1997 edition with new foreword. |
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Table of Contents:
- What kept abolition alive in Boston?
- The Federal Elections Bill of 1890 and Boston's upper class
- Booker T. Washington and Boston's Black upper class
- Race, gender, and class: the legacy of Lucy Stone
- William Monroe Trotter
- White into Black: Boston's NAACP, 1909-1920
- Irish-Americans and the legacy of John Boyle O'Reilly
- Life experience and the law: the cases of Holmes, Lewis, and Storey.