03677nam 2200709 a 450 991081417980332120240508234415.01-4696-0410-80-8078-9581-4(CKB)2670000000037570(EBL)565696(OCoLC)656841471(SSID)ssj0000427286(PQKBManifestationID)11262026(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427286(PQKBWorkID)10407128(PQKB)10068525(MiAaPQ)EBC565696(MiAaPQ)EBC4401537(MdBmJHUP)muse48577(Au-PeEL)EBL565696(CaPaEBR)ebr10405060(EXLCZ)99267000000003757020091125d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRight to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson /Blair L. M. Kelley1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20101 online resource (278 p.)The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-7101-X 0-8078-3354-1 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.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 John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.African AmericansCivil rightsHistoryCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistorySegregation in transportationUnited StatesHistoryBoycottsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesRace relationsHistoryNew Orleans (La.)Race relationsHistoryRichmond (Va.)Race relationsHistorySavannah (Ga.)Race relationsHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory.Civil rights movementsHistory.Segregation in transportationHistory.BoycottsHistory.323.1196/073Kelley Blair Murphy1973-1642426MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814179803321Right to ride3987130UNINA