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New York : New Press, 2001.
Description
Praised as ?viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years?enriched by memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies. In vivid, compelling accounts, men and women from all walks of life tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black Southerners fought back against the system?raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a
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History / Chafe
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ISBN
1565846974 / 9781565846975
Awards
Lillian Smith Award (2002)
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