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The Strange Career of Jim Crow: second revised edition
The Strange Career of Jim Crow second revised edition Author:C. Vann Woodward ?It could be maintained by 1965 that as a legal entity, Jim Crow was a thing of the past. If Jim Crow was dead, however, his ghost still haunted a troubled people. This extra-legal specter was still abroad in the land, and was unlikely to be laid very soon.? — These words summarize Mr. Woodward?s account of the revolutionary decade of 1955-65. ... more » Assessing these ten years with the same quiet authority that distinguished his account of segregation from 1877 to 1955, he redefines present and past in terms of each other, and makes use of recent research to expand his study of the earlier years. With this new edition, The Strange Career of Jim Crow becomes an essential guide for placing contemporary race relations in factual and humane perspective.« less