The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by

Description: The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward, William S. McFeely This is a commemorative edition for C. Vann Woodward, who died in December 1999, of his classic work on the history of segregation and American race relations. Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and former Woodward student, William McFeely contributes a special afterword to discuss how Strange Career achieved its own significance as part of history. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was Americas most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnuts Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodwards most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.The StrangeCareer of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated,Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, duringReconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works ofthe twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations." Author Biography The late C. Vann Woodward was the Sterling Professor of History at Yale until his death in 1999. Among his books are Mary Chestnuts Civil War, The Origins of the New South, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, and The Burden of Southern History. He was also General Editor of The Oxford History of the United States series.William S. McFeely won the Lincoln Prize in 1992 for Frederick Douglass and the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Grant: A Biography. He is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Georgia and lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Table of Contents IntroductionI.: Old Regimes and ReconstructionsII.: Forgotten AlternativesIII.: Capitulation to RacismIV.: The Man on the CliffV.: The Declining Years of Jim CrowVI.: The Career Becomes StrangerAfterword by William s. McFeely Promotional A commemorative edition of a classic work of American history, honoring the achievements of C. Vann Woodward Long Description C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was Americas most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnuts Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodwards most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.The StrangeCareer of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr.called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was arelative newcomer to the region.Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations." Feature A commemorative edition of a classic work of American history, honoring the achievements of C. Vann WoodwardSelling point: A commemoritive edition of a classic work of American History, honoring the achievements of C. Vann WoodwardSelling point: Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as "the historical Bible of the Civil Rights Movement" Details ISBN0195146905 Author William S. McFeely Short Title STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW Language English ISBN-10 0195146905 ISBN-13 9780195146905 Media Book Format Paperback Edition 4th Replaces 9780195018059 Birth 1908 Death 1999 Residence US Subtitle A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195146905 UK Release Date 2002-09-19 NZ Release Date 2002-09-19 US Release Date 2002-09-19 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-09-19 DEWEY 305.896073 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2001-11-30 Pages 272 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:37391876;

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