Description
AuthorC. Vann Woodward
Publisher Oxford Univ Press; 2d rev. ed. edition (January 1, 1966)
Binding paperback
Condition very good with age tanning and minor binding repair on the firs tpage
Summary
C. Vann Woodward’s The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the most influential works in American historical scholarship. Described by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as “the historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement,” this classic study traces the deliberate political creation of segregation and its transformation across the South after Reconstruction.
Originally published in 1955, this Second Revised Edition (1966) reflects Woodward’s updated research at the height of the Civil Rights era. It remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the legal and cultural architecture of segregation and the forces that ultimately dismantled it.
This copy is in very good condition, showing light age tanning typical of mid-1960s paper and a careful binding repair on the first page. A solid and significant vintage edition of a landmark work in American history.
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