Discusses the background and effects of the Jim Crow laws that were enacted after the Civil War to keep the races segregated.

This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publ

The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans.

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private li