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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

By William H. Chafe , Raymond Gavins , Robert Korstad (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2014
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2638380 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Time added
2019-10-31 05:19:32

Description

Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation. Men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet Remembering Jim Crow is also a testament to how black southerners fought back against systemic racism—building churches and schools, raising children, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.

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