The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South, Paperback - Brian Purnell

DescriptionDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow ...

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in ...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressNumber of pages: 360Collection: History of CommunicationPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 39Cove...

Contributor(s): Author: C. Vann WoodwardWith: William S. McFeelyC. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Sou...

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Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and ...

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It's Tennessee, in 1864. On a late autumn day, near a little town called Franklin, 10, 000 men will soon lie dead or dying in a battle that will ch...

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