Bibliograph

Schooling Jim Crow, the fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics, Jay Winston Driskell Jr

Type

Label

Schooling Jim Crow, the fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics, Jay Winston Driskell Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Schooling Jim Crow

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

891941436

Responsibility statement

Jay Winston Driskell Jr

Series statement

Carter G. Woodson Institute series

Sub title

the fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics

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

Table Of 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"

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