THE AGE OF SEGREGATION: RACE RELATIONS IN THE SOUTH, 1890-1945. ESSAYS BY DERRICK BELL, MARY FRANCES BERRY, DAN CARTER, AL-TONY GILMORE, ROBERT HIGGS, GEORGE TINDALL. University of Mississippi Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History (series).

First edition (not stated per publisher's contemporary practice). x, 156 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket well rubbed with some foxing; strong fading to spine panel; light soiling to white rear panel; nicks/scuffs at edges with bumping at flap fold heels; publisher's printed price present but well faded at front flap's top right corner. Brownish-yellow cloth; boards' bottom fore-edge corners bumped. Slight foxing to text block's top edge and fore-edge. Black endpapers; interior leaves are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Else a very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With Introduction and Notes. Features six essays presented at the (third annual) 1977 Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History at the University of Mississippi: "The Racial Imperative in American Law" by Derrick A. Bell, Jr.; "Repression of Blacks in the South 1890-1945: Enforcing the System of Segregation" by Mary Frances Berry; "Southern Political Style" by Dan Carter; "The Black Southerner's Response to the Southern System of Race Relations: 1900 to Post-World War II" by Al-Tony Gilmore; "Race and Economy in the South, 1890-1950" by Robert Higgs; "The Cost of Segregation" by George B. Tindall. ISBN 0878050876.…