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.
Kelley tells the.
Ferguson decision in 1896 and the Streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907.
Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v.
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