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Defying Jim Crow : African American community development and the struggle for racial equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960 /

From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship, was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories of fluid race relations and post-Civil W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeVore, Donald E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Community life > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > History > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The rise and decline of black equality
  • Higher education and individual initiative
  • The religious dimensions of community development
  • The secular dimensions of community development
  • Public education
  • Business and labor
  • Jim Crow attacked
  • Freedom now.