Mcfeely William S.
Mcfeely William S. - The Strange Career Of Jim Crow A Commemorative Edition With A New Afterword By William S. Mcfeely - Paperback
Mcfeely William S. - The Strange Career Of Jim Crow A Commemorative Edition With A New Afterword By William S. Mcfeely - Paperback
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Description: Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries - old way of life. The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S. Mc Feely former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize. As William Mc Feely describes in the new afterword 'the slim volume's social consequence far outstripped its importance to academia. The book became part of a revolution. The Civil Rights Movement had changed Woodward's South and his slim quietly insistent book. had contributed to that change.'
Title: The Strange Career Of Jim Crow A Commemorative Edition With A New Afterword By William S. Mcfeely
Author(s): Mcfeely William S.
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780195146905
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 11/29/2001
Category: Black & Asian Studies
Description: Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries - old way of life. The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S. Mc Feely former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize. As William Mc Feely describes in the new afterword 'the slim volume's social consequence far outstripped its importance to academia. The book became part of a revolution. The Civil Rights Movement had changed Woodward's South and his slim quietly insistent book. had contributed to that change.'
Title: The Strange Career Of Jim Crow A Commemorative Edition With A New Afterword By William S. Mcfeely
Author(s): Mcfeely William S.
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780195146905
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 11/29/2001
Category: Black & Asian Studies
