A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended
In
1955, C. Vann Woodward, the nation’s preeminent historian of the South,
published a brief history of Southern segregation that Martin Luther King Jr.
would call “the Bible of the civil rights movement.” The Strange Career of
Jim Crow, as the book
was titled, was intended to counter a common defense of segregation at the time—that
it had “always been that way.” By
showing that legal segregation emerged only in the 1890s…
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