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Author:

Driskell, Jay Winston, 1973- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 300 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--Atlanta--Atlanta--History--20th century.
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.)--History--20th century.
African American schools--Atlanta--Atlanta--History--20th century.
Segregation in education--Atlanta--Atlanta--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Atlanta--Atlanta--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Atlanta--Atlanta--History--20th century.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--History--20th century.
African Americans--Atlanta--Atlanta--Politics and government--20th century.
Protest movements--Atlanta--Atlanta--History--20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.)--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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."

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.

Series:

Carter G. Woodson Institute series

ISBN:

0813936144
9780813936147

OCLC:

(OCoLC)891941436

LCCN:

2014009609

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)