The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in United States History

by David K. Fremon

Book Overview

In 1954, the Supreme Court rejected the notion of separate but equal facilities in the famous Brown v. Board of Education decision. Highlighting the efforts of both blacks and whites to promote racial equality in the face of violent attempts to preserve white supremacy, Author David K. Fremon shows how segregation made the South a caste system. He traces the history of racial discrimination from the end of the Civil War through the Jim Crow era of...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766060926
• ISBN13: 9780766060920
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12