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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- 1. The New Negro Genealogy 8
- 2. Nashville: A Southern Black Metropolis 35
- 3. Soul Searching: W. E. B. Du Bois in the “South of Slavery” 55
- 4. “Mightier than the Sword”: The New Negro Novels of Sutton E. Griggs 79
- 5. “Tried by Fire”: The African American Boycott of Jim Crow Streetcars in Nashville, 1905–1907 114
- 6. “Before I’d Be a Slave”: The Fisk University Protests, 1924–1925 134
- Epilogue 176
- Notes 181
- Index 219
- About the Author 227
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- 1. The New Negro Genealogy 8
- 2. Nashville: A Southern Black Metropolis 35
- 3. Soul Searching: W. E. B. Du Bois in the “South of Slavery” 55
- 4. “Mightier than the Sword”: The New Negro Novels of Sutton E. Griggs 79
- 5. “Tried by Fire”: The African American Boycott of Jim Crow Streetcars in Nashville, 1905–1907 114
- 6. “Before I’d Be a Slave”: The Fisk University Protests, 1924–1925 134
- Epilogue 176
- Notes 181
- Index 219
- About the Author 227