Title

Avoiding "Jim Crow" - Negotiating separate and equal on Florida's railroads and streetcars and the progressive era origins of the modern civil rights movement

Authors

Authors

R. Cassanello

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Urban Hist.

Keywords

segregation; transportation; Jim Crow; Florida; race relations; civil; rights; streetcars; LOST; History; History Of Social Sciences; Urban Studies

Abstract

The fight against discrimination on public transportation in Florida at the turn of the twentieth century helped to transform black leaders from nineteenth century activists into modern civil rights protesters. Although the movements at the turn of the century and the ones that dominated the South after World War II were not directly connected through a continuum of leadership and institutions, activists in the early twentieth century laid the intellectual and philosophical foundations of the modern civil rights movements. These important protests coincided with increased migration and urbanization of blacks and poor whites in Florida, but also provided that space where the merging of disparate groups of black leaders could communicate and subordinate gender and class demands to race.

Journal Title

Journal of Urban History

Volume

34

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

435

Last Page

457

WOS Identifier

WOS:000253457900002

ISSN

0096-1442

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