The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: African Americans -- Segregation, United States -- Race relations
Description: <div><br /></div><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;font-size:13px;margin-bottom:10px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 8px;vertical-align:top;"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">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.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>