02811cmm a2200349 4500 214803948 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 100819s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780807895818 electronic bk. 0807895814 electronic bk. (OCoLC)656841471 N$T eng N$T YDXCP GPM OCLCQ MHW E7B OCLCQ MERUC FVL OCLCE DKDLA OCLCQ REDDC OCLCQ TxAuBib Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973- Right to ride [electronic resource] : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / Blair L.M. Kelley. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 1 online resource (xii, 256 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture, The 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. 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. United States Army of the Potomac Corps, 2nd Race relations History. African Americans Civil rights History. Civil rights movements United States History. Segregation in transportation United States History. Boycotts United States History. New Orleans (La) Race relations History. Richmond (Va) Race relations History. Savannah (Ga) Race relations History. Electronic books. The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=330163 EBSCOhost