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This is a resource on racism and segregation in American life. The book is chronologically organized into five sections, each of which focuses on a different hi

For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans.

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War