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This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publ
Jim Crow Wisdom
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Authors: Jonathan Scott Holloway
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-15 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to
Fighting in the Jim Crow Army
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Pages: 276
Authors: Maggi M. Morehouse
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-12-28 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Fighting in the Jim Crow Army is filled with first-hand accounts of everyday life in 1940s America. The soldiers of the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions speak o
West of Jim Crow
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African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant
Growing Up Jim Crow
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Jennifer Ritterhouse
Categories: Social Science
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In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate,