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Published in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South is the'viscerally powerful... compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era'(Publisher's Weekly). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation.Men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet Remembering Jim Crow is also a testament to how black southerners fought back against the system--raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.Praise for Remembering Jim Crow'A'landmark book.''—Publisher's Weekly,'The Year in Books''This is not just an oral history for the South, but for us all. It is a sobering reminder of the mistakes this

Author

Chafe, William H.; Korstad, Robert; Gavins, Raymond

Publisher

The New Press ; in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies of Duke University

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620970430

Subjects

Science, Social Science, History

Rating

4.27 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14