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The Strange Career of Jim Crow (Paperback)
[Buy it!] | C. Vann Woodward | USD 16.63
(Tue May 21 00:09:39 2024) | AbebooksUK | CitiRetail | ISBN10: 0195146905, ISBN13: 9780195146905, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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 StrangeCareer 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, duringReconstruction, 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 ofthe 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." This is a commemorative edition for C. Vann Woodward, who died in December 1999, of his classic work on the history of segregation and American race relations. Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and former Woodward student, William McFeely contributes a special afterword to discuss how Strange Career achieved its own significance as part of history. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
[Stevenage, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]
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