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Analysis Of C. Vann Woodward´s The Strange Career Of Jim Crow

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America’s history has been marked by periods of tumult and periods of stability within its borders, C. Vann Woodward’s book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, chronicles the events that happen after the Reconstruction period, showcasing the problems that Americans went through. The Strange Career of Jim Crow attacks segregation starting with its foundations and then records the laws and codes that the African-American population lived under during that time period. In his book Woodward points out the origins of Jim Crow laws and the segregation that goes with it, stating “One of the strangest things about the career of Jim Crow was that the system was born in the North and reached an advanced age before moving South in force.”1 This book review …show more content…

The first few decades after the Civil war was a growing age for the South and we can separate the reconstruction period into two separate categories: Reconstruction overseen by the Federal government and a type of local reconstruction in each state, following the withdrawal of Federal involvement in that state. During initial reconstruction there is very little segregation, blacks were given rights, they used those rights and in one instance in Alabama, a native white republican informed the governor of Alabama that men who would go and inform the black population of their rights were needed, these men were found and worked with blacks informing them of the rights that they …show more content…

However Woodard did include statistics in The Strange Career of Jim Crow which are helpful in visualizing numbers. Due to the subject and material I don’t think that photographs would have been a good idea for this book. On the other hand graphs would have been helpful in many cases such as segregation laws that came about, riots during a year or a span of years and things of that nature. One item that would have been helpful would be a timeline showcasing the events that Woodard describes. This book is already complete and very informative but a timeline of events would have been a great addition to this

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