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How free is free? : the long death of Jim Crow
Litwack, Leon F.
Adult Nonfiction E185.61 .L593 2009
From Publishers' Weekly:
In this stunning examination of African-American life after slavery. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Litwack recounts the physical brutality and crushing legal oppression of Jim Crow America. Drawing on African-American literature, poetry and blues music, as well as traditional archival and media records, the author details lynchings, segregation, denial of education and housing-and the dedication among African-Americans determined not to be treated as second-class citizens. The book pays special attention to the participation of black soldiers in America's wars and concludes with a look at race relations at the dawn of the new century: the legacy of the civil rights movement largely dismantled, the segregation formerly mandated by law replaced by a segregation just as deep driven by economics and tradition, and the voice of black dissent expressed through rap instead of blues. "In the early twenty-first century," the author writes, "it is a different America, and it is a familiar America"; Jim Crow is long gone from our law books, but the struggle for equality continues. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Litwack, Leon F.
Adult Nonfiction E185.61 .L593 2009
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From Publishers' Weekly:
In this stunning examination of African-American life after slavery. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Litwack recounts the physical brutality and crushing legal oppression of Jim Crow America. Drawing on African-American literature, poetry and blues music, as well as traditional archival and media records, the author details lynchings, segregation, denial of education and housing-and the dedication among African-Americans determined not to be treated as second-class citizens. The book pays special attention to the participation of black soldiers in America's wars and concludes with a look at race relations at the dawn of the new century: the legacy of the civil rights movement largely dismantled, the segregation formerly mandated by law replaced by a segregation just as deep driven by economics and tradition, and the voice of black dissent expressed through rap instead of blues. "In the early twenty-first century," the author writes, "it is a different America, and it is a familiar America"; Jim Crow is long gone from our law books, but the struggle for equality continues. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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