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Author Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.

Title The strange career of Jim Crow / C. Vann Woodward ; with a new afterword by William S. McFeely.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  305.896 W871s 2002    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Commemorative ed.
Description xvii, 245 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published: 1955.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.
Contents Of old regimes and reconstructions -- Forgotten alternatives -- Capitulation to racism -- The man on the cliff -- The declining years of Jim Crow -- The career becomes stranger.
Summary C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 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."
Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States -- Race relations.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) (OCoLC)fst01754987
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
African Americans -- Segregation. (OCoLC)fst00799695
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1863-1964
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author McFeely, William S.
ISBN 0195146891 (alk. paper)
9780195146899 (alk. paper)
0195146905 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780195146905 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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