Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 1 (LOA #376)
1876 - 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
$73.75
- Hardcover
763 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2024
Summary
This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America, it traces the ascendancy of white supremacy after Reconstruction and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies.
W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified “the problem of the color-line” as the defining issue in America…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537666 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598537660 |
| Author: | Tyina L. Steptoe |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 763 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 132mm |
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About The Author
Tyina L. Steptoe
Tyina Steptoe is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona and the author of Houston Bound- Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (2015), which received awards from the Urban History Association and the Western History Association. Her writing has appeared in Time, American Quarterly, Journal of African American History, and Oxford American. She hosts “Soul Stories,” a weekly radio program on KXCI FM, which explores the history of rhythm and blues.
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