Blair L. M. Kelley

Blair L. M. Kelley's books are works of American social history that center Black working people. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class follows Black labor from slavery and emancipation into the modern era, looking at work on railroads, in homes, in factories and in public life. Right to Ride examines the streetcar boycotts that Black citizens organized as segregation took hold, and appears in the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture.