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Summary Of Remembering Jim Crow

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Jim Crow was not a person, it was a series of laws that imposed legal segregation between white Americans and African Americans in the American South. It promoting the status “Separate but Equal”, but for the African American community that was not the case. African Americans were continuously ridiculed, and were treated as inferiors. Although slavery was abolished in 1865, the legal segregation of white Americans and African Americans was still a continuing controversial subject and was extended for almost a hundred years (abolished in 1964). Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South is a series of primary accounts of real people who experienced this era first-hand and was edited by William H.Chafe, Raymond …show more content…

He received his PhD from Columbia University and has written many books. His research focuses mainly on racial equality and gender. Some topics of his books include women’s shifting economic and social roles after the woman suffrage amendment (The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century) and also the start of the sit-in movement in North Carolina. He has also written books about current American politics (Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal, The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890 to 2008 and Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America) and America after World War II (The Unfinished Journey: American Since World War II). Altogether he has written twelve books and has received many awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Sidney Hillman book …show more content…

The Behind the Veil project primary focused on recording and preserving the memory of African American life during the period of legal segregation in the south. The Behind the Veil Oral History Project by Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies is the largest collection of oral history of the Jim Crow Era. From 1993 to 1995 researchers organized more than one thousand aged black southerners’ oral history interviews on their memories of the era of legal segregation. The accounts of the 1,260 interviews in this selection express the authentic personalities and moving personal stories that give the experience of the book a genuine feel of the South during the late-19th to mid-20th

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Book Review In C. Vann Woodward’s, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Vann Woodward gives his complete insight of the historical events, the racially proclaimed issues that took place, and his analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, during the end of the Civil War all the way to the ending of the Civil Rights. Summary of Book The Strange Career of Jim Crow is written in six detailed chapters, in which the introduction of Jim Crow is evolving and becoming more apparent to the South. “Of Old Regimes and Reconstructions” elaborates on the segregation of the South right after the Civil War and the North being blamed for the cause of segregation.

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Chapter 1 of “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, that is also a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, wrote this chapter to inform us the history of racism in America, and if African Americans really treated equally. When the Emancipation Proclamation was passed, many whites were scared that the slaves are now free because they might want revenge, so the whites made a stereo type that all black men are criminals. When the Reconstruction ended, the south had a redemption. The convicts had no legal rights, so they became the “slaves” to help rebuild after the civil war. Then the prison population of blacks rose so the whites can use them as free labor.

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Vann Woodward, examines the Jim Crow Laws after the Civil War had taken place. Majority of the book is a series of lectures by Woodward, himself, that are directed towards the South. The historical context which “The Strange Career of Jim Crow” is written took place during the Civil Rights Movement. Several legal cases, such as the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, played a prominent role in race relation issues. C. Vann Woodward used a tremendous amount of precise, historical evidence throughout his book.

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