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Remembering Jim Crow African Americans tell about life in the segregated South

"Praised as 'viscerally powerful' (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years enriched by memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies. In vivid, compelling accounts, men and women from all walks of life tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black Southerners fought back against the system raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival and an important part of the American past that is crucial for us to remember"--Provided by publisher.

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