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The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely
C. Vann Woodward
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBTB; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries-old way of life. The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S. McFeely, former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize. As William McFeely describes in the new afterword, 'the slim volume's social consequence ... Read more
Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries-old way of life. The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S. McFeely, former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize. As William McFeely describes in the new afterword, 'the slim volume's social consequence ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195146905
SKU
V9780195146905
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About C. Vann Woodward
Woodward is one of the most influential and distinguished southern historians in the 20th Century. He received the Pulitzer in History in 1982 for Mary Chesnut's Civil War. McFeely is a well-known historian and biographer. He won the Lincoln Prize in 1992 for the biography Frederick Douglass and the Pulitzer, in 1982 (the same year as Woodward) ... Read more
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