American nightmare : the history of Jim Crow / Jerrold M. Packard.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2003, ©2002.
Edition:First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Segregation > Southern States > History.
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
Southern States > History > 1865-1951.
Southern States > Race relations.
Physical Description:ix, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Starting from the very beginning
  • Slavery transformed into peonage, 1865-1896
  • Into the night: the early twentieth century
  • Full-blown Jim Crow: between the wars
  • How white America rationalized Jim Crow
  • The war years
  • Getting to the end
  • The last years.