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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524694003321

Autore

Schneider Mark R (Mark Robert), <1948->

Titolo

Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 / Mark R. Schneider ; [new foreword by Zebulon Vance Miletsky]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Northeastern University Press

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 262 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Race relations

African Americans - Segregation

African Americans

African Americans - History - 1877-1964

African Americans - Segregation - Massachusetts - Boston

History

Biographies.

Massachusetts Boston

Boston (Mass.) Biography

Boston (Mass.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint of 1997 edition with new foreword.

Nota di contenuto

What kept abolition alive in Boston? -- The Federal Elections Bill of 1890 and Boston's upper class -- Booker T. Washington and Boston's Black upper class -- Race, gender, and class: the legacy of Lucy Stone -- William Monroe Trotter -- White into Black: Boston's NAACP, 1909-1920 -- Irish-Americans and the legacy of John Boyle O'Reilly -- Life experience and the law: the cases of Holmes, Lewis, and Storey.

Sommario/riassunto

Boston, the headquarters of radical abolition during the antebellum period, is, paradoxically, often thought of as unfriendly to African-Americans today. In this study of the city's significant role in the fight against racism between 1890 and 1920, Mark Robert Schneider illuminates the vital links between Boston's antislavery tradition, race reform at the turn of the century, and the modern civil rights movement. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in



1997. With a new foreword by Zebulon Vance Miletsky.