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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

C. Vann Woodward

Was racial segregation in the American South ancient and unchangeable, or did it have a beginning that could have gone another way?

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Author
C. Vann Woodward

Why read it

  • You will see that a social system that seems permanent can be recent, and so can be changed
  • You will learn how a practice can spread from state to state until it becomes law and seems to have always existed
  • You will understand why anger can erupt right after real progress

Who it is for

  • A teacher who wants to explain where segregation came from
  • A voter hearing that some divisions are just tradition
  • Someone surprised that civil rights progress met backlash

Contents

  1. Preface to the Third Revised Edition
  2. Preface to the Second Revised Edition
  3. Preface to the First Edition
  4. Introduction
  5. I Of Old Regimes and Reconstructions
  6. II Forgotten Alternatives
  7. III Capitulation to Racism
  8. IV The Man on the Cliff
  9. V The Declining Years of Jim Crow
  10. VI The Career Becomes Stranger
  11. Afterword by William S. McFeely

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