In Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson (UNC Press, 2010), she examines some of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, situating Plessy within the rich historical context of a strong, diverse, and determined movement of protest and resistance. The book won the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.