the strange career of jim crow by c vann woodward

Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, 'a landmark in the history of American race relations.' Product Details

The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. called it 'the historical Bible of the civil rights movement.' The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Publication date 1968 Topics African Americans - Segregation, African Americans.

In this polarized climate a scapegoat was needed, and “permissions-to-hate” African Americans became widely accepted (148).C. The Strange career of Jim Crow by Woodward, C. A combination of economic, political, and social crises in the South in this period “was the perfect cultural seedbed for aggression against the minority race” (147).

The Populists also moved away from their appeal to class coalition across races. As a result, the conservatives “raised the cry of ‘Negro domination’ and white supremacy” (144). The conservatives-with their paternalistic support of African Americans-were weakened by financial scandals and an economic depression. Political parties gradually moved away from supporting African Americans. This national shift coincided with internal resistance to racism relaxing in the South. In particular, Woodward highlights a series of decisions by the US Supreme Court between 18 the racial justifications of American imperialism in the Philippines, Hawaii, and Cuba and a growing acceptance of racism as a doctrine. Chapter 3 describes a “cumulative weakening of resistance to racism” (131) across the United States in the last decades of the 19th century.

The strange career of jim crow by c vann woodward