Examines the history of the Jim Crow laws that were enacted during the late nineteenth century that limited the rights and privileges of African-American's, and describes the efforts of the civil rights movement in the mid-twentieth century to change those laws.
Content Note
Maintaining White supremacy -- Separate but equal : the Jim Crow system -- Life under Jim Crow -- Violence and injustice -- Accommodation or protest : the response of African Americans to Jim Crow -- The beginning of the end for Jim Crow.