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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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