Right to ride
Subtitle: streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson
By: Blair L. M. Kelley
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture; John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807833544; 9780807871010
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; 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; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.