Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

by Leslie Brown and Anne M. Valk

Book Overview

This groundbreaking book collects black women's personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women's role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023062152X
• ISBN13: 9780230621527
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"