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Schooling Jim Crow : the fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics / Jay Winston Driskell Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Driskell, Jay Winston, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
- Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Education--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African American schools--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.
- African American schools.
- Segregation in education--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.
- Segregation in education.
- African Americans--Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta--Politics and government--20th century.
- Protest movements--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.
- Protest movements.
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Atlanta (Ga.).
- Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.)--History--20th century.
- Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.).
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--History--20th century.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- 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.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813936154
- 0813936152
- OCLC:
- 893103820
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