Remembering Jim Crow
African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South
Raymond Gavins editor William H Chafe editor Robert Korstad editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The New Press
Published:21st Oct '21
Should be back in stock very soon
A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years through first-person interviews carefully collected by researchers at Duke University’s Behind the Veil project. Newly relevant today as Americans reckon with the legacies of slavery and strive for racial equality, Remembering Jim Crow provides vivid, compelling accounts by men and women from all walks of life, who tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression.
“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance” (Library Journal), 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 society that denied them the most basic rights. Collectively, these narratives illuminate individual and community survival and tell a powerful story of the American past that is crucial for us to remember as we grapple with Jim Crow’s legacies in the present.
Praise for Remembering Jim Crow:
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award
Winner of the Carey McWilliams Award
“A landmark book.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Powerful.”
—Booklist
“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance.”
—Library Journal
“A multimedia triumph.”
—Kansas City Star
ISBN: 9781620976821
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
400 pages