Traces the struggles of African Americans from the end of slavery through the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South, to the civil rights movement and legal equality.
General Note
Original edition published under title: Jim Crow laws and racism in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, 2000.
Content Note
"The most important decision" -- Less-than-free freedmen -- Life under Jim Crow -- "Separate but equal" -- Action or accommodation -- "Come north" -- The key to independence -- "If not us, who?" -- The right to serve, the right to vote -- Violence and victory.