Blair L M Kelley: 2 books
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
Right to Ride
Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
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...