Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow

by Jeffrey Snyder

Book Overview

In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey Aaron Snyder shows how the study and celebration of black history became an increasingly important part of African American life over the course...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820351830
• ISBN13: 9780820351834
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"