The Strange Career of Jim Crow - Softcover

Woodward, C. Vann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195018052 ISBN 13: 9780195018059

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1974

Synopsis

Surveys the history of segregation in the United States, citing the changes, controversies, and leaders that have emerged from the Civil Rights movement

About this title

About the Author:

The late C. Vann Woodward, former Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, wrote and edited several history books, including Mary Chestnut's Civil War, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982.

Review:

"C. Vann Woodward's Strange Careeer is one of the most important works to an American historian of any period. Not only is Strange Career a great work of history, it is history. It is still enthralling students today."--Carlos Blanton, Rice University

"This classic study of the history of segregation in the United States still has much to teach us."--The Diversity Factor

"A unique, revealing, and 'eye-opening' volume that deals with a most sensitive aspect of U.S. history."--Arthur E. Chapman, University of Miami

Praise for previous editions:

"Excellent perspective of development of Jim Crow laws in South and , what is unusual, in the North. The revision has a good analysis of the irony of modern black separatism."--Ben F. Fordney, James Madison Univ.

"A witty, learned, and unsettling book...a book of permanent significance."--Robert Penn Warren

"A landmark in the history of American race relations."--David Herbert Donald

"I have used this work as a required reading in my freshman-level U.S. history class for twenty-two years and found it a most appropriate assignment."--Peter Sehlinger, Indiana University, Indianapolis

"Absolutely useful."--Jennie La Monte, University of New Hampshirs

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0195018052
• ISBN 13: 9780195018059
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 256