Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Military, Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad ISBN: 9781620970430
Publisher: The New Press Publication: September 16, 2014
Imprint: The New Press Language: English
Author: William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad
ISBN: 9781620970430
Publisher: The New Press
Publication: September 16, 2014
Imprint: The New Press
Language: English

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 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 systemic racism—building churches and schools, raising children, 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 nation has made, a hopeful reflection on how far we have come.” —The Kansas City Star

“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance.” —Library Journal

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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 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 systemic racism—building churches and schools, raising children, 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 nation has made, a hopeful reflection on how far we have come.” —The Kansas City Star

“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance.” —Library Journal

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