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

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via HeinOnline)
Main Author:	Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973- (Author)
Other title:	HeinOnline UNC Press law publications. HeinOnline U.S. Supreme Court library. HeinOnline civil rights and social justice.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

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.

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