Right to Ride

Blair L. M. Kelley

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Language: English

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, US, 2010

080787101X / 9780807871010

Series: Book 24 of 72 - The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

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A civil rights movement in an earlier generation. 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. Kelley's findings force 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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Title
Right to Ride
Author
Blair L. M. Kelley
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press, US
Publication year
2010
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New
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Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
080787101X
ISBN 13
9780807871010
Item weight
435 grams
Series
Book 24 of 72: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

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