Format:
XII, 256 S., [4] Bl.
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9780807871010
,
9780807833544
Series Statement:
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Schwarze
;
New Orleans, La.
;
Richmond, Va.
;
Savannah, Ga.
;
Straßenbahn
;
Rassentrennung
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
;
Geschichte 1890-1910
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32261
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