A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / J. Michael Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinez, J. Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Southern States--Race relations--History.

Southern States.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of an often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction. Discussing both crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-25082-1

979-88-8183-269-8

1-4422-5996-5

OCLC:

942754789