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

Title:

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

Author:

Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

Published:

Chapel Hill : c2010.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emmanuel College

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.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

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