Right to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / [electronic resource] :
Blair L. M. Kelley.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- xii, 256 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture .
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. .
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.
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African Americans--Civil rights--History. Civil rights movements--History.--United States Segregation in transportation--History.--United States Boycotts--History.--United States
United States--Race relations--History. New Orleans (La.)--Race relations--History. Richmond (Va.)--Race relations--History. Savannah (Ga.)--Race relations--History.