Reforming Jim CrowAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Thursday 3 June 2010
Description
Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s-Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches--as a revolutionary social upheaval that upended a rigid caste system. While the 1950s was a watershed era in Southern and civil rights history, the tendency has been to paint the preceding Jim Crow era as a brutal system that featured none of the progressive reform impulses so apparent at the federal level and in the North. As Kimberley Johnson shows in this pathbreaking reappraisal of the Jim Crow era, this argument is too simplistic, and is true to neither the 1950s nor the long era of Jim Crow that finally solidified in 1910. Focusing on the political development of the South between 1910 and 1954, Johnson considers the genuine efforts by white and black progressives to reform the system without destroying it. The reformers commitment to a system that was less unequal-albeit not truly equal-and more like the North led to significant policy changes over time. As Johnson powerfully demonstrates, our lack of knowledge about the cumulative policy transformations resulting from the Jim Crow reform impulse impoverishes our understanding of the Civil Rights revolution. Reforming Jim Crow rectifies that.
You may also like ...
by
Hardback
03 Jun 2010
History of the Americas
€51.47
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
09 Mar 2023
Gardening: fruit and vegetable
€11.69
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
08 Dec 2022
Picture storybooks
€11.69
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
01 Mar 2021
Christian life and practice
€22.45
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews