Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad

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$29.95 / £17.99

Described by Publishers Weekly as the “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era,” Remembering Jim Crow is now available in paperback. Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents the most extensive oral history ever of African American life under segregation.

Citing Remembering Jim Crow as a Best Book of the Year for 2001, Library Journal wrote that “[when] the segregation era finally passes from living memory, students of its history will look to sources like this for a shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance.” In vivid, compelling accounts, men and women from all walks of life tell how their day-to-day activity was subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black southerners fought back against the system, raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights.

William H. Chafe, project director of Behind the Veil, is dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Duke University and author of eight books. Raymond Gavins, project director of Behind the Veil, is professor of history at Duke University and author of The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership. Robert Korstad, project director of Behind the Veil, is an associate professor of public policy studies and history at Duke University and author of two books.