pt. I. Introduction : Segregation and the age of Jim Crow -- pt. II. Some current questions : 1. When did the South capitulate to segregation / C. Vann Woodward -- 2. Was segregation the creation of custom or of law / Joel Williamson -- 3. Why were the railroads the contested terrain of race relations in the postwar South / Edward L. Ayers -- 4. What did segregation replace / Howard N. Robinowitz -- 5. What role did gender play in railroad segregation / Barbara Y. Welke -- 6. How did segregation enforce rural subordination / Leon F Litwack.