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

Edition Commemorative edition Published New York, New York : Oxford University Press, Inc., [2002] ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages) Contents Preface to the third revised edition -- Preface to the second revised edition -- Preface to the first edition -- 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 -- Afterword / William S. McFeely 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.""--Publisher's description Notes Originally published: 1955. Second revised edition published, 1966. Third revised edition published, 1974 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed August 9, 2023) SUBJECT Schwarze ... gnd Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- History African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877. African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Racism against Black people -- Southern States -- History Racism against Black people Race relations African Americans -- Segregation African Americans Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Rassentrennung Rassenfrage Noirs américains -- Ségrégation -- 19e siècle. Noirs américains -- Ségrégation -- 20e siècle. Noirs américains -- États-Unis (sud) Racisme -- Lutte contre -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Southern States -- Race relations Subject United States Southern States USA -- Südstaaten USA États-Unis (sud) -- Relations interethniques. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author McFeely, William S., writer of foreword. ISBN 9780199728619 0199728615

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