C. Vann Woodward; who died in 1999 at the age of 91; was America's most eminent Southern historian; the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now; to honor his long and truly distinguished career; Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work; The Strange Career of Jim Crow.The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed; the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955; a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated; Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King; Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws; presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that; even under slavery; the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact; during Reconstruction; there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century; The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains; in the words of David Herbert Donald; "a landmark in the history of American race relations."
#1791281 in Books Jennifer A Glancy 2002-03-14Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 6.30 x 1.00 x 9.20l; 1.17 #File Name: 0195136098224 pagesSlavery in Early Christianity
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11 of 18 people found the following review helpful. A noteworthy contribution; superbly written; well researchedBy A CustomerDr. Glancy has filled a void in the realm of Classical/religious studies in addressing the issue of slavery in the ancient Christian world. It is a readable; superbly researched text. Every college and university library should have this volume in the collection.16 of 26 people found the following review helpful. Try looking at the texts with fresh eyesBy A CustomerMs Glancy looks at the first century through the eyes of the twentieth and these opening years of the 21st; and is so deeply is so deeply involved with the discussions between Foucaultian and anti-Foucaultian feminists that she can hardly see the old first century texts at all.This is a pity; because she has good instincts; and now and then they break through the inter-academic jockeying.
