Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920Northeastern University Press, 1997 - 262 pages An adept, well-written illumination of this crucial time in an extraordinary city . . . The text in engrossing and written in a conversational tone, but it is most impressive for the intelligible way it fits the pieces of the political puzzle together to form a complete, multidimensional picture of Beantown racialists. -- Publishers Weekly |
Contents
ONE The Federal Elections Bill of 1890 | 29 |
TWO Booker T Washington and Bostons | 57 |
The Legacy of Lucy Stone | 83 |
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