{"product_id":"9781598538144","title":"Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle 1876-1976","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eSteptoe, Tyina L.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLibrary of America\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBoxed Set\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid firsthand record of the stain of white supremacy and the outspoken resistance of Black and white Americans who envisioned a better, more just nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois famously identified \"the problem of the color-line\" as the defining issue in American life in the twentieth century. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony and appeals, judicial opinions, and poems and song lyrics from the end of Reconstruction in 1876 to the Boston busing crisis of 1974–76.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrederick Douglass on the importance of voting rights\u003c\/li\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\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\u003eWilliam Monroe Trotter’s dramatic White House confrontation with Woodrow Wilson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlain Locke’s tribute to “the New Negro”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThurgood Marshall on police brutality in wartime Detroit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRosa Parks’s appeal for justice for Recy Taylor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarl Warren’s landmark opinion in \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFannie Lou Hamer’s eloquent challenge to disenfranchisement in      Mississippi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand James Baldwin on the myths and meaning of the American     Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129235722495,"sku":"9781598538144","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781598538144_s600x595.jpg?v=1775597799","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781598538144","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}