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Right to ride

by Kelley, Blair Murphy,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture Published by : University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill :) Physical details: xii, 256 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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