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1 online resource (xii, 423 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-397) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. A child of misery -- Prologue: race in America -- The legacy of reconstruction -- Jumpin' Jim Crow: legal segregation -- Racial violence and the plight of the freedmen -- Part II. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down -- The rise of the populist movement -- Southern populism -- Washington versus Du Bois -- Part III. He's gone on high to prepare a place -- The great migration -- A nadir of race relations: "It is like writing history with lightning" -- The rise of a new Black culture -- Southern justice, a depression, and a war -- Epilogue: the postwar American landscape: "White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually cause each other". |
| Summary |
For a brief time following the end of the US Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity--slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility--to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war--and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s--American society witnessed the evolution of a new white republic as national leaders abandoned the promise of Reconstruction and justified their racial biases based on political, economic, social, and religious values that supplanted the old North-South/slavery-abolitionist schism of the antebellum era. This book provides a sweeping history of this too often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction--from the beginnings of legal segregation through the end of World War II. Author J. Michael Martinez argues that the 1880s ushered in the dark night of the American Negro--a night so dark and so long that the better part of a century would elapse before sunlight broke through. Combining both a "top-down" perspective on crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a "bottom-up" discussion of the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.--Adapted from dust jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
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History. |
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History.
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Southern States. |
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African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
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| Chronological Term |
1877-1964 |
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Racism -- United States -- History.
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Racism. |
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Racism -- Southern States -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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African Americans. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: A long dark night Lanham ; Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781442259942 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015035504 |
| ISBN |
9781442259966 ebook |
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1442259965 |
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9781442259942 cloth : alkaline paper |
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9781442259966 electronic |
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1442259949 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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