A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / / J. Michael Martin

• Autore: Martinez J. Michael (James Michael)
• Pubblicazione: Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - History - 1877-1964; Racism - United States - History; Racism - Southern States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History; Southern States Race relations History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. A child of misery -- Prologue: race in America -- The legacy of reconstruction -- Jumpin' Jim Crow: legal segregation -- Racial violence and the plight of the freedmen -- Part II. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down -- The rise of the populist movement -- Southern populism -- Washington versus Du Bois -- Part III. He's gone on high to prepare a place -- The great migration -- A nadir of race relations: "It is like writing history with lightning" -- The rise of a new Black culture -- Southern justice, a depression, and a war -- Epilogue: the postwar American landscape: "White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually cause each other".
• Sommario/riassunto: A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of an often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction. Discussing both crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.
• Titolo autorizzato: A long dark night
• ISBN: 1-4422-5996-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798276103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II