{"product_id":"the-strange-career-of-jim-crow-9780195146905","title":"The Strange Career of Jim Crow","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eMary Chestnut's Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e and a Bancroft Prize for \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of the New South\u003c\/em\u003e. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Career of Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Strange Career of Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in \u003cem\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/em\u003e ordered schools desegregated, \u003cem\u003eStrange Career\u003c\/em\u003e was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it \"the historical Bible of the civil rights movement.\" The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Career of Jim Crow\u003c\/em\u003e has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, \"a landmark in the history of American race relations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe late \u003cstrong\u003eC. Vann Woodward\u003c\/strong\u003e was the Sterling Professor of History at Yale until his death in 1999. Among his books are \u003cem\u003eMary Chestnut's Civil War, The Origins of the New South, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Burden of Southern History\u003c\/em\u003e. He was also General Editor of The Oxford History of the United States series. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam S. McFeely\u003c\/strong\u003e won the Lincoln Prize in 1992 for \u003cem\u003eFrederick Douglass\u003c\/em\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for \u003cem\u003eGrant: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e. He is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Georgia and lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893622083858,"sku":"9780195146905","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a3786b5a-3a1e-439d-a241-6b9900189fd5.jpg?v=1738233247","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-strange-career-of-jim-crow-9780195146905","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}