Overall, I enjoyed C. Vann Woodward’s novel The Strange Career of Jim Crow. I enjoyed the layout of the text, and how he took history as a whole and broke it into chapters. His novel was very eye – opening for me and taught me about things and events that I did not know occurred regarding segregation. Woodward tries to show the behind the scenes that textbooks fail to do with the scenes of segregation throughout the country. He is trying to address the real issues of segregation in the North and the South. Woodward discusses how segregation began and takes the reader through time. He discusses the enforcement or lack of enforcement of the Jim Crow laws. If anyone was to read this book, it would teach them about what textbooks so happen to leave out. Woodward shows the reader that the South wasn’t as segregated as what the historians and textbooks make it out to be. Woodward sets up …show more content…
He goes in chronological order for the historical events he speaks about, such as the Reconstruction era and the Civil Rights Movement. One thing I learned from Woodward’s book was the silent sit-ins against the Jim Crow laws. I have always learned about the violent and horrible acts against blacks for segregation, and the way they would protest for what they wanted. I never knew about the silent, and respectful sit ins they had. But, I guess it depends on who’s writing the textbooks for schools for us to only learn about the violent acts created by African Americans. Also, after writing my paper on the Ku Klux Klan, I was aware of the bombing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s home, but I was unaware of the riot it had started with the African Americans. I did not know this was the Birmingham battle. I found it interesting that “But Birmingham had become a symbol for an outraged people all over the country, and the pictures of helpless Negroes attacked by police dogs and brutal police were