American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow Packard Jerrold M.Paperback
American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow Packard Jerrold M.Paperback For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation…
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow Packard Jerrold M.Paperback
For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Exceeding even South Africa's notorious apartheid in the humiliation, degradation, and suffering it brought, Jim Crow left scars on the American psyche that are still felt today. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquette, these rules governed nearly every aspect of life--and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as possible to their former slave status.
Most importantly, this book reveals how a nation founded American Nightmare examines and explains Jim Crow from its beginnings to its end: how it came into being, how it was lived, how it was justified, and how, at long last, it was overcome only a few short decades ago.