When did southern segregation begin?
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: September 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780312257385
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Black studies; Racism & racial discrimination; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Sociology; USA; General; History / General
First sentence: Writing in 1899, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the African American historian, sociologist, and editor, analyzed why some blacks committed crimes.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Introduction : Segregation and the age of Jim Crow
pagenum: |; title: pt. II. Some current questions.
pagenum: |; title: 1. When did the South capitulate to segregation?
pagenum: C. Vann Woodward |; title: 2. Was segregation the creation of custom or of law?
pagenum: Joel Williamson |; title: 3. Why were the railroads the contested terrain of race relations in the postwar South?
pagenum: Edward L. Ayers |; title: 4. What did segregation replace?
pagenum: Howard N. Robinowitz |; title: 5. What role did gender play in railroad segregation?
pagenum: Barbara Y. Welke |; title: 6. How did segregation enforce rural subordination?
pagenum: Leon F. Litwack |