Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South

By: William H. Chafe (Editor), Raymond Gavins (Editor), Robert Korstad (Editor), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 7 September 2021

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402 Pages

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21.5 x 13.9 x 2.8

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A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts

Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years through first-person interviews carefully collected by researchers at Duke University’s Behind the Veil project. Newly relevant today as Americans reckon with the legacies of slavery and strive for racial equality, Remembering Jim Crow provides vivid, compelling accounts by men and women from all walks of life, who tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression.

“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance” (Library Journal), Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how Black Southerners fought back against the system, raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. Collectively, these narratives illuminate individual and community survival and tell a powerful story of the American past that is crucial for us to remember as we grapple with Jim Crow’s legacies in the present.

Industry Reviews

Praise for Remembering Jim Crow:
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award

Winner of the Carey McWilliams Award

“A landmark book.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Powerful.”
—Booklist

“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance.”
—Library Journal

“A multimedia triumph.”
—Kansas City Star

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