A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II /
Martinez, J. Michael
A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / J. Michael Martin. - 1 online resource (436 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
9781442259966 (e-book)
African Americans--History--1877-1964.
Racism--History.--United States
Racism--History.--Southern States
United States--Race relations--History.
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Electronic books.
E185.61 / .M364 2016
305.800973
A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / J. Michael Martin. - 1 online resource (436 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
9781442259966 (e-book)
African Americans--History--1877-1964.
Racism--History.--United States
Racism--History.--Southern States
United States--Race relations--History.
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Electronic books.
E185.61 / .M364 2016
305.800973