LEADER 03714nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910460040803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0410-8 010 $a0-8078-9581-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000037570 035 $a(EBL)565696 035 $a(OCoLC)656841471 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000427286 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11262026 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427286 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10407128 035 $a(PQKB)10068525 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC565696 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4401537 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48577 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL565696 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10405060 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000037570 100 $a20091125d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRight to ride$b[electronic resource] $estreetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson /$fBlair L. M. Kelley 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 1 $aThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-7101-X 311 $a0-8078-3354-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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. 330 $aThrough a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 and the streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907. Kelley tells the stories of the brave but little-known men and women who faced down the violence of lynching and urban 410 0$aJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSegregation in transportation$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBoycotts$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xRace relations$xHistory 607 $aRichmond (Va.)$xRace relations$xHistory 607 $aSavannah (Ga.)$xRace relations$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory. 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory. 615 0$aSegregation in transportation$xHistory. 615 0$aBoycotts$xHistory. 676 $a323.1196/073 700 $aKelley$b Blair Murphy$f1973-$01031348 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460040803321 996 $aRight to ride$92448675 997 $aUNINA