An edition of The strange career of Jim Crow (1955)

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An edition of The strange career of Jim Crow (1955)

The strange career of Jim Crow

Commemorative ed.

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Presents a discussion of the development of the Southern social movement called "Jim Crowism" and segregation in post-Reconstruction United States.

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Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Pages
245

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African Americans Segregation Jim Crow History Race relations Afro-Americans Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Blacks Social conditions Segregatie Rassendiscriminatie Doctrine Histoire des institutions Institutions politiques Se gre gation Noirs ame ricains Su dstaaten Rassenfrage Noirs américains Südstaaten Ségrégation SOCIAL SCIENCE Umschulungswerksta˜tten fu˜r Siedler und Auswanderer Civil Rights POLITICAL SCIENCE African American Relations inter-raciales Discrimination & Race Relations Noirs americains Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer United states, race relations Southern states, race relations African americans, history African americans, segregation Reconstruction

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United States Southern States

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1877-1964 1863-1877

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2002, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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1974, Oxford University Press
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1966, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-236) and index.
Originally published: 1955.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.896/073/09034
Library of Congress
E185.61 .W86 2002, E185.61.W86 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 245 p. ;
Number of pages
245

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3942376M
ISBN 10
0195146891, 0195146905
LCCN
2001021668
OCLC/WorldCat
46671043
LibraryThing
109592
Goodreads
27517
97484

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Work ID
OL3938920W

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.
Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."

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