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Sharp, Anne Wallace.

A dream deferred : the Jim Crow era / Anne Wallace Sharp. - Detroit : Lucent Books, c2005. - 112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Lucent library of Black history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-106) and index.

A dream deferred -- Maintaining White supremacy -- Separate but equal : the Jim Crow system -- Life under Jim Crow -- Violence and injustice -- Accommodation or protest : responding to Jim Crow -- The beginning of the end for Jim Crow.

Discusses the racism that ran rampant in the United States after the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws that were instituted in the South as a reaction to this racism, and the fight against these laws and to end discrimination. .

ISBN: 1590187008 (lib. bdg.) : $28.70

LCCN: 2005002799

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Civil rights--History.--Southern States
African Americans--Segregation--History.--Southern States
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Southern States
Racism--History.--Southern States
Race discrimination--History.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Southern States--Race relations.

LC Class. No.: E185.2 / .S53 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 323.1196/073075/09034