Title Right to ride : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Blair L.M. Kelley

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010] ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index Notes English Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 3, 2019) Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History Civil rights movements -- United States -- History Segregation in transportation -- United States -- History Boycotts -- United States -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Civil rights Boycotts Civil rights movements Race relations Segregation in transportation SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations -- History Savannah (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History Subject Georgia -- Savannah Louisiana -- New Orleans United States Virginia -- Richmond Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2009050000 ISBN 9780807895818 0807895814 9781469604107 1469604108

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