Nixon, Edgar Daniel

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    • Publication Information:
      Oxford University Press, 2009.
    • Publication Date:
      2009
    • Abstract:
      civil rights leader who led protests against racial discrimination in Montgomery, Alabama, for fifty years. Born in 1899, Edgar Daniel “Ed” Nixon was the fifth of eight children. His father, Wesley M. Nixon, was a tenant farmer in Autauga County, Alabama, and was an untrained circuit-riding Primitive Baptist minister. After Ed's mother died, his father's remarriage brought nine more children into the family. Young Ed left elementary school to work, and at age twenty-five he joined the Pullman Company. Soon after, he organized the first Alabama local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), becoming president of the Montgomery division in 1937. Nixon's employment with the Chicago-based company, along with his union membership, protected him from the economic reprisals that many other black activists experienced. He idolized A. Philip Randolph the international president of the BSCP and many of his local organizing campaigns were modeled ...
    • ISBN:
      978-0-19-530173-1
      0-19-530173-0
    • Accession Number:
      10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006
    • Online Access:
      https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006
    • Accession Number:
      edsoaa.9780195301731.013.46006
  • Citations
    • ABNT:
      CHATEAUVERT, M. Nixon, Edgar Daniel. African American Studies Center, [s. l.], 2009. DOI 10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006. Disponível em: https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsoaa&AN=edsoaa.9780195301731.013.46006. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2023.
    • AMA 11th Edition:
      Chateauvert M. Nixon, Edgar Daniel. African American Studies Center. February 2009. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006
    • APA 7th Edition:
      Chateauvert, M. (2009). Nixon, Edgar Daniel. African American Studies Center. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006
    • Chicago 17th Edition:
      Chateauvert, Melinda. 2009. “Nixon, Edgar Daniel.” African American Studies Center, February. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006.
    • Harvard:
      Chateauvert, M. (2009) ‘Nixon, Edgar Daniel’, African American Studies Center [Preprint]. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006.
    • Harvard: Australian:
      Chateauvert, M 2009, ‘Nixon, Edgar Daniel’, African American Studies Center, viewed 29 March 2023, .
    • MLA 9th Edition:
      Chateauvert, Melinda. “Nixon, Edgar Daniel.” African American Studies Center, Feb. 2009. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006.
    • Chicago 17th Edition:
      Chateauvert, Melinda. “Nixon, Edgar Daniel.” African American Studies Center, February 9, 2009. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46006.
    • Vancouver/ICMJE:
      Chateauvert M. Nixon, Edgar Daniel. African American Studies Center [Internet]. 2009 Feb 9 [cited 2023 Mar 29]; Available from: https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsoaa&AN=edsoaa.9780195301731.013.46006