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Blood(2000), Bruce Dain, A Hideous Monster of the Mind(2002), and

George Frederickson, The Arrogance of Race(1988). David Brion Davis, In

the Image of God(2001), provides an invaluable overview of the debate as

to how racism reached the western hemisphere.

Jim Crow South

The most influential account of segregation’s beginnings is C. Vann

Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow(1974). In Trouble in Mind

(1998), Leon Litwack portrays black southerners in the Jim Crow era. Grace

Hale, Making Whiteness(1998), shows how southern attitudes on race

crystallized after the Civil War. Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race

(1984), examines the rage that white southerners felt toward the freedmen.

James Allen, Without Sanctuary(2000), and Philip Dray, At the Hands of

Persons Unknown (2002), examine the sordid lynching phenomenon.

Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White

Supremacy(2000), looks at a leading racist. J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping

of Southern Politics(1974), details the political tricks that kept blacks out of

politics. Pete Daniel’s The Shadow of Slavery(1972) explores the pernicious

practice of peonage. See Louis Harlan’s Booker T. Washington(1972, 1983),

for a biography of a black leader who urged temporary acceptance of white

dominance.

Movement Overviews

The most valuable history of the civil rights movement is the multi-volume

account rendered by Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters(1988) and Pillar of

Fire(1998). Shorter, but still valuable, accounts include Adam Fairclough,

Better Day Coming (2001), Robert Weisbrot, Freedom Bound (1990),

Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality(1993), Steven Lawson,

Black Ballots (1976), Robert Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty? (1998),

Manning Marable, Race, Reform, and Rebellion(1984), David Goldfield, Jr.,

Black, White, and Southern(1990), William Riches, The Civil Rights

Movement(1997), Vincent Harding et al., We Changed the World(1997),

Kevern Verney, Black Civil Rights in America(2000), and Lois Blumberg,

Civil Rights(1984). Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize(1987), is the com-

panion volume to an acclaimed PBS television documentary.

Useful edited collections of documents are Joanne Grant, Black Protest

(1968), Peter Levy, Let Freedom Ring(1992), and Manning Marable and

Leith Mullings, Let Nobody Turn Us Around(1999).

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