Reforming Jim Crow Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown

Name: Reforming Jim Crow Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown
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ISBN: 9780195387421

ISBN-10: 0195387422

ISBN-13: 9780195387421

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kimberley Johnson

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Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950sBrown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches--as a revolutionary social upheaval that upended a rigid caste system. While the 1950s was a watershed era in Southern and civil rights history, the tendency has been to paint the preceding Jim Crow era as a brutal system that featured none of the progressive reform impulses so apparent at the federal level and in the North. As Kimberley Johnson shows in this pathbreaking reappraisal of the Jim Crow era, this argument is too simplistic, and is true to neither the 1950s nor the long era of Jim Crow that finally solidified in 1910. Focusing on the…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.40" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Kimberley Johnson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Problem of the South and the Beginning of Reform



Lynching, Legitimacy, and Order



Southern Reform and the New Deal



Democratization for the White South



The Natural Way: Education in the Jim Crow Order



Higher Education for Blacks in the South: Pragmatism and Principle?



Building the Jim Crow University System



Jim Crow Reform and the Rebirth of Black Political Citizenship



The End of Jim Crow Reform


Race, Region, and American Political Development: An Analytical Coda


Notes


Bibliography


Index