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Genre/Form: | Oral histories Audiobooks Biographies History Interviews Oral history Biography |
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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
Document Type: | Book, Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William H Chafe; Behind the Veil Project. |
ISBN: | 1565846974 9781565846975 1565847784 9781565847781 1620970279 9781620970270 |
OCLC Number: | 46829181 |
Notes: | Recollections taken from interviews compiled by the Behind the Veil Project at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Accompanying sound recordings contain the complete American RadioWorks documentary and additional selections from the Behind the Veil Project. |
Performer(s): | Host of the American RadioWorks documentary, Remembering Jim Crow: Deborah Amos. |
Awards: | Lillian Smith Book Award, 2002 |
Description: | xxxv, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 2 audio discs (60 min. each : digital : 4 3/4 in.) |
Contents: | Book Contents. Bitter truths -- Heritage and memory -- Families and communities -- Lessons well learned -- Work -- Resistance and political struggles -- Remembering Jim Crow: the radio documentary transcript -- Voices from behind the veil: selections from the Center for Documentary Studies track list. Disc 1. Remembering Jim Crow: an American RadioWorks documentary -- Disc 2. Voices from behind the veil: selections from the Center for Documentary Studies Oral History Collection. |
Responsibility: | edited by William H. Chafe [and others]. |
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Abstract:
This is an oral history of the "Jim Crow era", covering the period after the end of slavery when segregation was still dominant in America. Men and women from all walks of life describe the racial oppression that condemned them to a second-class citizenship.
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"A landmark book" - Publishers' Weekly "A powerful examination of institutionalized racism's effect on African-Americans and a grim reminder of the era's lingering influence on contemporary life." "Time Out Read more...
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- African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.
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- African Americans -- Southern States -- Interviews.
- Oral history.
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- African Americans.
- African Americans -- Civil rights.
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