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Jim Crow: Voices From A Century Of Struggle Part One (loa #376)

Hardback
Published : Tuesday 2 April 2024
ISBN : 9781598537666
Price : €39.77


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A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction - and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies, W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified the problem of the color-line as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality. Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony, judicial opinions, letters, and poems and song lyrics - more than eighty essential texts in all - from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the bloody Red Summer of 1919. The volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, i



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