Right to ride [electronic resource] : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Blair L. M. Kelley.
Material type: TextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.Description: xii, 256 p., [8] p. of plates : illSubject(s):- 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
- 323.1196/073 22
- E185.61 .K355 2010
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.