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From Slavery to Civil Rights - On the streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present (Hardcover)
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From Slavery to Civil Rights - On the streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 17
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An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on
publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the
LUP Open Access Author Fund. The history of Louisiana from slavery
until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique influences
within the state were responsible for a distinctive political and
social culture. In New Orleans, the most populous city in the
state, this was reflected in the conflict that arose on segregated
streetcars that ran throughout the crescent city. This study
chronologically surveys segregation on the streetcars from the
antebellum period in which black stereotypes and justification for
segregation were formed. It follows the political and social
motivation for segregation through reconstruction to the
integration of the streetcars and the white resistance in the 1950s
while examining the changing political and social climate that
evolved over the segregation era. It considers the shifting nature
of white supremacy that took hold in New Orleans after the Civil
War and how this came to be played out daily, in public, on the
streetcars. The paternalistic nature of white supremacy is
considered and how this was gradually replaced with an unassailable
white supremacist atmosphere that often restricted the actions of
whites, as well as blacks, and the effect that this had on urban
transport. Streetcars became the 'theatres' for black resistance
throughout the era and this survey considers the symbolic part they
played in civil rights up to the present day.
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