Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England

by Richard Archer

Book Overview

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Shadrach Howard, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass, and others had rejected demands that they relinquish their seats on various New England railroads. They were protesting segregation on Jim Crow cars, a term that originated in New England in 1839. Theirs was part of a larger movement for equal rights in antebellum New England. Using sit-ins, boycotts, petition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190676647
• ISBN13: 9780190676643
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"