Right to ride
Subtitle: streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson
By: Blair L. M. Kelley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780807833544; 9780807871010
Subjects: 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
Description: "Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores the community organizations that bound protestors together and the divisions of class, gender, and ambition that sometimes drove them apart. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: New York : the antebellum roots of segregation and dissent; title: The color line and the ladies? car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy; title: Our people, our problem? : Plessy and the divided New Orleans; title: Where are our friends? : crumbling alliances and New Orleans streetcar boycott; title: Who's to blame? : Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate; title: Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott; title: Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott; title: Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure.