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

Title The strange career of Jim Crow / C. Vann Woodward
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1955

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Description 1 online resource (155 pages)
Series The James W. Richard lectures in history, University of Virginia, 1954
Richard lectures ; 1954
Summary 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. [In the book, the author] 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
Notes Print version record
Subject African Americans -- Segregation.
African Americans -- Segregation.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 55008126