| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores African Americans' organized efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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History. |
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
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Civil rights movements. |
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United States. |
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Segregation in transportation -- United States -- History.
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Segregation in transportation. |
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Boycotts -- United States -- History.
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Boycotts. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Race relations. |
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New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History.
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Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations -- History.
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Savannah (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973- Right to ride. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807833544 (DLC) 2009050000 (OCoLC)441211702 |
| ISBN |
9780807895818 (electronic book) |
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0807895814 (electronic book) |
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9781469604107 (electronic book) |
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1469604108 (electronic book) |
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9780807833544 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807833541 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807871010 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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080787101X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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