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A Long Dark Night
Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II
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2016
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For a brief time following the end of the U.S. 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.
A Long Dark Night 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. Michael J. 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.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-5994-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-5996-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
423
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Contents No access
List of Photographs No access
Introduction and Acknowledgments No access Pages 1 - 4
Prologue: Race in America: ‘‘There Is Not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America’’ No access Pages 5 - 18
1 The Legacy of Reconstruction No access
2 Jumpin’ Jim Crow and Legal Segregation No access
3 Racial Violence and the Plight of the Freedmen No access
4 The Rise of the Populist Movement No access
5 Southern Populism No access
6 Washington versus Du Bois No access
7 The Great Migration No access
8 A Nadir of Race Relations No access
9 The Rise of a New Black Culture No access
10 Southern Justice, a Depression, and a War No access
Epilogue: The Postwar American Landscape: ‘‘White Prejudice and Negro Standards Thus Mutually ‘Cause’ Each Other’’ No access Pages 303 - 314
