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

• Autore: Woodward C. Vann
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896073; 305.89607309034
• Soggetto topico: African Americans; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations; Southern States Race relations
• Altri autori: McFeelyWilliam S
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; I: Of Old Regimes and Reconstructions; II: Forgotten Alternatives; III: Capitulation to Racism; IV: The Man on the Cliff; V: The Declining Years of Jim Crow; VI: The Career Becomes Stranger; Afterword; Notes on Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. Bo
• Titolo autorizzato: Strange career of Jim Crow
• ISBN: 0-19-771650-4; 0-19-972861-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823182603321
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