Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Book Overview

The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.

The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525559531
• ISBN13: 9780525559535
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"