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A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / J. Michael Martinez.
Van Pelt Library E185.61 .M364 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martinez, J. Michael (James Michael), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism.
- History.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Southern States--Race relations--History.
- Southern States.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- African Americans.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism--Southern States--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part I.A child of misery
- Prologue: race in America
- The legacy of reconstruction
- Jumpin' Jim Crow: legal segregation
- Racial violence and the plight of the freedmen
- Part II. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down
- The rise of the populist movement
- Southern populism
- Washington versus Du Bois
- Part III. He's gone on high to prepare a place
- The great migration
- A nadir of race relations: "It is like writing history with lightning"
- The rise of a new Black culture
- Southern justice, a depression, and a war
- Epilogue: the postwar American landscape: "White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually cause each other."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442259942
- 1442259949
- OCLC:
- 920453810
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