A long dark night : : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II / / J. Michael Martin.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lanham : : Rowman & Littlefield,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. A child of misery
- Prologue: race in America
- The legacy of reconstruction
- Jumpin' Jim Crow: legal segregation
- Racial violence and the plight of the freedmen
- Part II. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down
- The rise of the populist movement
- Southern populism
- Washington versus Du Bois
- Part III. He's gone on high to prepare a place
- The great migration
- A nadir of race relations: "It is like writing history with lightning"
- The rise of a new Black culture
- Southern justice, a depression, and a war
- Epilogue: the postwar American landscape: "White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually cause each other".