How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow

by Leon F. Litwack

Book Overview

In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling examples of terrorism, violence, and dehumanization in the history of this nation. But, as Leon Litwack graphically demonstrates, it is at the same time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674031520
• ISBN13: 9780674031524
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 7.0"