Reforming Jim Crow Southern politics and state in the age before Brown

This text reshapes how we think about the origins of the civil rights era. The book paints a complex portrait of racial politics in the South in the first half of the 20th century and shows how the weaknesses in the Jim Crow system allowed reformers to lay some of the groundwork that would lead to t...

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Main Author: Johnson, Kimberley S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2010, 2010
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This text reshapes how we think about the origins of the civil rights era. The book paints a complex portrait of racial politics in the South in the first half of the 20th century and shows how the weaknesses in the Jim Crow system allowed reformers to lay some of the groundwork that would lead to the system's eventual collapse
Physical Description:x, 326 p.
ISBN:9780199776771
0199776776