Abstract

Most of the debates about race relations focused on the railroads of the New South. Travel was a different story, for members of both races had no choice but to use the same railroads. As the number of railroads proliferated in the 1880s, as the number of stations quickly mounted, as dozens of counties got on a line for the first time, as previously isolated areas found themselves connected to towns and cities with different kinds of black people and different kinds of race relations, segregation became a matter of statewide attention.

Document Type

Book Chapter

ISBN

0-312-23705-7

Publication Date

2002

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2002 Bedford/St. Martin's. This book chapter first appeared in When Did Southern Segregation Begin?

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