Jim Crow/Bibliography

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• Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South (1992), a general history of the South in the late 19th century online edition
• Barnes, Catherine A. Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit , 1983.
• Bartley, Numan V. The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s (1969).
• Bond, Horace Mann. “The Extent and Character of Separate Schools in the United States.” Journal of Negro Education 4(July 1935):321–27. in JSTOR
• Chafe, William Henry, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, eds. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2003) excerpt and text search
• Gabriel Chin & Hrishi Karthikeyan, Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asians, 1910 to 1950, 9 Asian L.J. (2002)
• Dailey, Jane, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, eds. Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (2000), essays by scholars on impact of Jim Crow on black communities online edition
• Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. (1994).
• Fairclough, Adam. "'Being in the Field of Education and Also Being a Negro…Seems…Tragic': Black Teachers in the Jim Crow South." Journal of American History 87 (June 2000): 65–91. in JSTOR
• Feldman, Glenn. Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915–1949. (1999). online edition
• Fireside, Harvey. Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision That Legalized Racism, 2004. ISBN 0-7867-1293-7
• Foner, Eric. Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988), ISBN 0-06-015851-4, standard history of Reconstruction from neoabolitionist school
• Gaines, Kevin. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century (1996). online edition
• Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996) online edition; also excerpt and text search
• Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me (1996) ISBN 0-451-19203-6. A Southern white reporter darkens his skin to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959.
• Haws, Robert, ed. The Age of Segregation: Race Relations in the South, 1890– 1945, 1978.
• Hackney, Sheldon. Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (1969)
• Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, (2004) online edition
• Lipsitz, George. "'Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac': White Supremacy, Antiblack Racism, and the New Historicism," American Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Winter, 1995), pp. 700-725 in JSTOR
• Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998) excerpt and text search
• Kantrowitz, Stephen. Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000) excerpt and text search
• Kantrowitz, Stephen. "Ben Tillman and Hendrix McLane, Agrarian Rebels: White Manhood, 'The Farmers,' and the Limits of Southern Populism," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Aug., 2000), pp. 497-524 in JSTOR
• Kennedy, Randall. Martin Luther King's Constitution: a Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 98 Yale Law Journal 999-1067 (April, 1989) pp 999-1067 online edition without footnotes; complete edition from JSTOR
• Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2006) excerpt and text search
• McMillen, Neil R. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. (1989). excerpt and text search
• Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944). Highly influential and detailed analysis of the Jim Crow system in operation. excerpt and text search
• Newby, I. A. Jim Crow's Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, 1900-1930 (1965)
• Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. (1941). by conservative white planter excerpt and text search
• Rabinowitz, Howard N. Race Relations in the Urban South, 1856–1890 (1978)
• Ritterhouse, Jennifer. Growing Up Jim Crow: The Racial Socialization of Black and White Southern Children, 1890-1940. (2006) excerpt and text search
• Smith, John David, ed. When Did Southern Segregation Begin? (2001), 194pp excerpt and text search
• Smith, J. Douglas. Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia, (2002) online edition
• Smith, J. Douglas. "The Campaign for Racial Purity and the Erosion of Paternalism in Virginia, 1922–1930: 'Nominally White, Biologically Mixed, and Legally Negro.'" Journal of Southern History 68 (February 2002): 65–106. online edition
• Sterner, Richard. The Negro's share: a study of income, consumption, housing, and public assistance (1943), statistical analysis of 1930s ACLS E-book
• Williams, Juan, and Julian Bond. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1988) excerpt and text search
• Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) Highly influential classic history by Pulitzer prize winner. excerpt and text search; complete text online at ACLS e-books
• Woodward, C. Vann. The Origins of the New South: 1877-1913 (1951). complete text online at ACLS e-books