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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814179803321

Autore

Kelley Blair Murphy <1973->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0410-8

0-8078-9581-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

323.1196/073

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v.



Ferguson decision in 1896 and the streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907. Kelley tells the stories of the brave but little-known men and women who faced down the violence of lynching and urban