Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson

by Blair L.M. Kelley and Blair L.M. Kelley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807833541
• ISBN13: 9780807833544
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"