A long dark night race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / J. Michael Martinez.

Author/creator Martinez, J. Michael
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London: Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Descriptionxii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Part I. A child of misery -- Prologue: race in America -- The legacy of reconstruction -- Jumpin' Jim Crow: legal segregation -- Racial violence and the plight of the freedmen -- Part II. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down -- The rise of the populist movement -- Southern populism -- Washington versus Du Bois -- Part III. He's gone on high to prepare a place -- The great migration -- A nadir of race relations: "It is like writing history with lightning" -- The rise of a new Black culture -- Southern justice, a depression, and a war -- Epilogue: the postwar American landscape: "White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually cause each other".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 359-397) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015035504
ISBN9781442259942 (cloth : alk. paper)

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