The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1974-01-01
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780195018059
Description: This book, referred to by Martin Luther King as "the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement," makes a compelling case that the Jim Crow system of racial legislation that dominated the South was not a natural outgrowth of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, or even Redemption, but rather a haphazard creation of Southern whites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.