Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

by Nikki L M Brown, Barry M. Stentiford, Nikki L.M. Brown

Book Overview

This one-volume reference work examines a broad range of topics related to the establishment, maintenance, and eventual dismantling of the discriminatory system known as Jim Crow.

Many Americans imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans had their civil rights and basic human rights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610696638
• ISBN13: 9781610696630
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 10.0"