Colored travelers : mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War

The Resource Colored travelers : mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War
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Colored travelers : mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War
Title remainder
mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War
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Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
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eng
Summary
"Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. These were "colored travelers, " activists who relied on steamships, stagecoaches, and railroads to expand their networks and to fight slavery and racism. This book tells the story of how the basic act of traveling emerged as a front line in the battle for African American equal rights before the Civil War"--
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323.1196/07309034
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.18
LC item number
.P75 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

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