A dream deferred : the Jim Crow era / Anne Wallace Sharp.
Material type: TextSeries: Lucent library of Black historyPublication details: Detroit : Lucent Books, c2005.Description: 112 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1590187008 (lib. bdg.) :
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History
- Southern States -- Race relations
- Racism -- Southern States -- History
- Race discrimination -- United States -- History
- 323.1196/073075/09034 22
- E185.2 .S53 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Hardcover | Beverly Middle School | 323.1196 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 650922 |
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. .