{"product_id":"jim-crow-tyina-l-steptoe-9781598537666","title":"Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part One (Loa #376): 1876 - 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois famously identified \"the problem of the color-line\" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One \u003c\/b\u003ebrings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony, judicial opinions, letters, and poems and song lyrics--more than eighty essential texts in all--from the end of Reconstruction in 1876 to the bloody \"Red Summer\" of 1919. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIda B. Wells on the scourge of lynching\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichard T. Greener's scathing critique of America's \"White Problem\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Chesnutt on the nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooker T. Washington's historic Atlanta address\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Marshall Harlan's eloquent and prophetic dissent in \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson;\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary Church Terrell on segregation in the nation's capital and the convict lease system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Monroe Trotter's dramatic White House confrontation with Woodrow Wilson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJeanette Carter's tribute to the men and women who fought back against white mobs in 1919\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume also presents revealing examples of white supremacist advocacy by Nathaniel Shaler and Benjamin Tillman; testimony about the \"Exoduster\" migration to Kansas in the 1870s; celebrations of pathbreaking Black musicians and stage performers; writing about the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the founding of the NAACP, and Black soldiers in World War I; and contrasting editorials from the Black and white press on prizefighter Jack Johnson and the outlaw Robert Charles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the teaching of our nation's history, especially the history of race in America, becomes increasingly contested, this book will serve as a vital resource, a crucial reminder of where we've been, how far we've come, and how long the road ahead remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tyina L. Steptoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1598537660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598537666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 4.96w x 1.65d","brand":"Tyina L. Steptoe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44227714318591,"sku":"9781598537666","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd9b8ddb-7669-47f6-8d97-be2a63eff0a0.jpg?v=1692810188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jim-crow-tyina-l-steptoe-9781598537666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}