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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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 freedo...

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Main Author: Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
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.
African Americans > Civil rights
Boycotts
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Segregation in transportation
United States > Race relations > History.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History.
Richmond (Va.) > Race relations > History.
Savannah (Ga.) > Race relations > History.
Georgia > Savannah
Louisiana > New Orleans
United States
Virginia > Richmond
History

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Call Number: E185.61 .K355 2010eb
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