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

By: Martinez, J. Michael (James Michael) [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (436 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781442259966 (e-book)Subject(s): African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 | Racism -- United States -- History | Racism -- Southern States -- History | United States -- Race relations -- History | Southern States -- Race relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II.DDC classification: 305.800973 LOC classification: E185.61 | .M364 2016Online resources: Click to View
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".
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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".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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