A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / J. Michael Martinez.

For a brief time following the end of the US Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity--slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility--to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not...

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Main Author: Martinez, J. Michael (James Michael) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I.A child of misery
  • Prologue: race in America
  • The legacy of reconstruction
  • Jumpin' Jim Crow: legal segregation
  • Racial violence and the plight of the freedmen
  • Part II. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down
  • The rise of the populist movement
  • Southern populism
  • Washington versus Du Bois
  • Part III. He's gone on high to prepare a place
  • The great migration
  • A nadir of race relations: "It is like writing history with lightning"
  • The rise of a new Black culture
  • Southern justice, a depression, and a war
  • Epilogue: the postwar American landscape: "White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually cause each other."