Raymond Gavins: 2 books

Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary...

The Cambridge Guide to African American History

by Raymond Gavins
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

This book emphasizes blacks' agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement. To consider the means or strategies that African Americans utilized in pursuing their aspirations and struggles for freedom and equality, readers can consult...