- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "This book describes how the early NAACP successfully organized a voting bloc in 1920s Atlanta powerful enough to force the city to build its first publicly funded Black high school"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Carter G. Woodson Institute series
- Uniform Title
- Schooling Jim Crow (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Schooling Jim Crow (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-289) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- "Manhood rights" : progress and the politics of respectability, 1899-1906 -- "To humiliate the progressive Negro" : the Atlanta race riot of 1906 -- "Respectable militants" : the Neighborhood Union and the transformation of the politics of respectability, 1908-1913 -- "Close ranks" : World War I as a crucible for Black solidarity, 1913-1919 -- "A satisfied part of our composite citizenship" : the fight for Booker T. Washington High School, 1918-1924 -- Epilogue: "Self-determination at the ballot box".
- LCCN
- 2014009609
- OCLC
- ssj0001378383
- Author
Driskell, Jay Winston, 1973-
- Title
Schooling Jim Crow [electronic resource] : the fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics / Jay Winston Driskell Jr.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Series
Carter G. Woodson Institute series
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-289) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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