Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia

by Jane Dailey

Book Overview

Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics.

Melding social, cultural, and political history, Jane Dailey...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849014
• ISBN13: 9780807849019
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"