Acknowledgments
Introduction
New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent
The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy
Our people, our problem? : Plessy and the divided New Orleans
Where are our friends? : crumbling alliances and New Orleans streetcar boycott
Who's to blame? : Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate
Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott
Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott
Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure
Notes
Bibliography
Index.