Reforming Jim Crow : Southern politics and state in the age before Brown / Kimberley Johnson.

This text reshapes how we think about the origins of the civil rights era. The book paints a complex portrait of racial politics in the South in the first half of the 20th century and shows how the weaknesses in the Jim Crow system allowed reformers to lay some of the groundwork that would lead to t...

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Main Author: Johnson, Kimberley S., 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Summary:This text reshapes how we think about the origins of the civil rights era. The book paints a complex portrait of racial politics in the South in the first half of the 20th century and shows how the weaknesses in the Jim Crow system allowed reformers to lay some of the groundwork that would lead to the system's eventual collapse.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 326 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780195387421
0195387422
9780199741731
0199741735
9780199776771
0199776776
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.