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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

ISBN: 9780195018059 | 0195018052
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/21/1974

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book covers the history of segregation in the American South from 1877 through the 1960s.

This third revised edition of Woodward's classic study of the history of the Jim Crow laws and of American race relations in general includes a new chapter on the tragic events that have occurred since 1965, including the Watts riots, the murder of Martin Luther King, white backlash encouragedby black activism, and the shift in national mood resulting from the election of Richard Nixon into the White House.
Introduction3(8)
I Of Old Regimes and Reconstructions
11(20)
II Forgotten Alternatives
31(36)
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III Capitulation to Racism
67(44)
IV The Man on the Cliff
111(38)
V The Declining Years of Jim Crow
149(40)
VI The Career Becomes Stranger
189(32)
Notes on Reading221(4)
Index225

The late C. Vann Woodward, former Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, wrote and edited several history books, including Mary Chestnut's Civil War, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982.

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