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Tyina L. Steptoe

Jim Crow

Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (LOA #387): 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis...

Tyina L. Steptoe

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The Library of America
24 June 2025
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A vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976

A vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976

W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified ""the problem of the color-line"" as the defining issue in American life. 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.

Jim Crow- Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part Two brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony and appeals, judicial opinions, and poems and song lyrics-more than ninety essential texts in all-from the end of the bloody ""Red Summer"" of 1919 to the Boston busing crisis of 1974-76.

This volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including

.

B. C. Franklin on the Tulsa Massacre .

Robert Russa Moton's suppressed address on the dedication of the

Lincoln Memorial .

Alain Locke's tribute to ""the New Negro"" .

Ned Cobb's recounting of the harsh realities of sharecropping .

Thurgood Marshall on police brutality in wartime Detroit .

Rosa Parks's appeal for justice for Recy Taylor .

Earl Warren's landmark opinion in Brown

.

Paul Robeson's defiant response to congressional inquisitors .

Fannie Lou Hamer's eloquent challenge to disenfranchisement in

Mississippi .

and James Baldwin on the myths and meaning of the American

Dream

Also presented are white supremacist writings from the 1920s Klan and the Dixiecrats of 1948; examples of Southern voter literacy tests; blues lyrics sung by Bessie Smith and Big Bill Broonzy; Robert F. Williams's controversial call for armed Black self-defense; speeches by Marcus Garvey and Stokeley Carmichael; letters in the Black press about Confederate monuments; Ann Moody on her childhood in segregated Mississippi; and Mary McLeod Bethune's advocacy for reproductive rights as an essential element of democratic freedom.

As 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.
By:  
Imprint:   The Library of America
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 131mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781598538014
ISBN 10:   1598538012
Pages:   700
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tyina Steptoe is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona and the author of Houston Bound- Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (2015), which received awards from the Urban History Association and the Western History Association. Her writing has appeared in Time, American Quarterly, Journal of African American History, and Oxford American. She hosts ""Soul Stories,"" a weekly radio program on KXCI FM, which explores the history of rhythm and blues.

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