American Nightmare The History of Jim Crow

Name: American Nightmare The History of Jim Crow
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ISBN: 9780312302412

ISBN-10: 031230241X

ISBN-13: 9780312302412

Edition: Revised

Authors: Jerrold M. Packard

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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions. The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as possible to their former slave status. Exceeding even South Africa's notorious apartheid in the humiliation, degradation, and suffering it brought, Jim Crow left scars on the American psyche that are still felt today. American Nightmare examines and explains Jim Crow from its beginnings to its end:…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/21/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: Coming Home



Starting from the Very Beginning



Slavery Transformed Into Peonage, 1865-1896



Into the Night: the Early Twentieth Century



Full-Blown Jim Crow: Between the Wars



How White America Rationalized Jim Crow



The War Years



Getting to the End



The Last Years


Bibliography


Index