By C. Vann Woodward,William S. McFeely
The unusual profession of Jim Crow is among the nice works of Southern heritage. certainly, the e-book truly contributed to shaping that historical past. released in 1955, a yr after the splendid courtroom in Brown v. Board of Education ordered colleges desegregated, Strange Career used to be mentioned so usually to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. known as it "the historic Bible of the civil rights movement." The booklet bargains a transparent and illuminating research of the heritage of Jim Crow legislation, featuring proof that segregation within the South dated basically to the Eighteen Nineties. Woodward convincingly exhibits that, even below slavery, the 2 races had now not been divided as they have been below the Jim Crow legislation of the Eighteen Nineties. in truth, in the course of Reconstruction, there has been huge financial and political blending of the races. The segregating of the races was once a relative newcomer to the region.
Hailed as one of many most sensible a hundred nonfiction works of the 20 th century, The unusual occupation of Jim Crow has offered virtually 1000000 copies and continues to be, within the phrases of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark within the background of yank race relations."
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