Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South

A new paperback edition of Remembering Jim Crow, a collection of first-person accounts from the Jim Crow South, has been released. The book provides a powerful and poignant look at the experiences of African Americans during this period, highlighting their resilience and resistance in the face of racial oppression.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2021
Publisher: The New Press

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts.

Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years through first-person interviews carefully collected by researchers at Duke University's Behind the Veil project. Newly relevant today as Americans reckon with the legacies of slavery and strive for racial equality, Remembering Jim Crow provides vivid, compelling accounts by men and women from all walks of life, who tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression.

"A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance" (Library Journal), 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. Collectively, these narratives illuminate individual and community survival and tell a powerful story of the American past that is crucial for us to remember as we grapple with Jim Crow's legacies in the present.

Dimension: 215 x 139 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781620976821