Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years

“A detailed and thought-provoking account of segregation” including photos and first-person stories illustrating life in the Jim Crow era (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of ...