Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle 1876-1976

A vivid firsthand record of the stain of white supremacy and the outspoken resistance of Black and white Americans who envisioned a better, more just nation

W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life in the twentieth century. 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 disenfranch...