{"product_id":"jim-crow-voices-from-a-century-of-struggle-part-1-loa-376-1876-1919-reconstruction-to-the-red-summer-9781598537666","title":"Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 1 (Loa #376): 1876 - 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois famously identified \"the problem of the color-line\" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One \u003c\/b\u003ebrings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony, judicial opinions, letters, and poems and song lyrics--more than eighty essential texts in all--from the end of Reconstruction in 1876 to the bloody \"Red Summer\" of 1919. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIda B. Wells on the scourge of lynching\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichard T. Greener's scathing critique of America's \"White Problem\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Chesnutt on the nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooker T. Washington's historic Atlanta address\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Marshall Harlan's eloquent and prophetic dissent in \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson;\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary Church Terrell on segregation in the nation's capital and the convict lease system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Monroe Trotter's dramatic White House confrontation with Woodrow Wilson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJeanette Carter's tribute to the men and women who fought back against white mobs in 1919\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume also presents revealing examples of white supremacist advocacy by Nathaniel Shaler and Benjamin Tillman; testimony about the \"Exoduster\" migration to Kansas in the 1870s; celebrations of pathbreaking Black musicians and stage performers; writing about the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the founding of the NAACP, and Black soldiers in World War I; and contrasting editorials from the Black and white press on prizefighter Jack Johnson and the outlaw Robert Charles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the teaching of our nation's history, especially the history of race in America, becomes increasingly contested, this book will serve as a vital resource, a crucial reminder of where we've been, how far we've come, and how long the road ahead remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTyina Steptoe\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona and the author of \u003ci\u003eHouston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), which received awards from the Urban History Association and the Western History Association. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Journal of African American History, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e. She hosts \"Soul Stories,\" a weekly radio program on KXCI FM, which explores the history of rhythm and blues.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615043424530,"sku":"9781598537666","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3665054d-b1ca-4ad1-8086-4e0ebcca080f.jpg?v=1732473546","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jim-crow-voices-from-a-century-of-struggle-part-1-loa-376-1876-1919-reconstruction-to-the-red-summer-9781598537666","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}