American nightmare : the history of Jim Crow / Jerrold M. Packard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Packard, Jerrold M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Segregation--Southern States--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

History.

African Americans--History--1863-1877.

African Americans--Segregation.

Southern States--History--1865-1951.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 291 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002.

Summary:

Acclaimed historian Packard takes a groundbreaking new look at the history of segregation, from the Reconstruction to the Civil Rights movement. Rivaling South Africa's apartheid in the humiliation and degradation of a people, the scars of Jim Crow are still felt on the American psyche.

Contents:

Starting from the very beginning

Slavery transformed into peonage, 1865-1896

Into the night: the early twentieth century

Full-blown Jim Crow: between the wars

How white America rationalized Jim Crow

The war years

Getting to the end

The last years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-280) and index.

ISBN:

0312261225

OCLC:

47643555