Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) - Brossura

Libro 24 di 72: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

Kelley, Blair L.M.

 
9780807871010: Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 080787101X ISBN 13: 9780807871010
Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Sinossi

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 race riots to contest segregation. Focusing on three key cities-New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah-Kelley explores the community organizations that bound protestors together and the divisions of class, gender, and ambition that sometimes drove them apart. 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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Blair L. M. Kelley is associate professor of history at North Carolina State University.

Dalla quarta di copertina

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.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

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.

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Editore
The University of North Carolina Press
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
080787101X
ISBN 13 
9780807871010
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
278
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780807833544: Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0807833541 ISBN 13:  9780807833544
Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2010
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