The Strange Career of Jim Crow

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    …most widely read book was The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), in which he showed that the legal segregation of whites and blacks was not rooted in “time immemorial” as had been routinely claimed by Southerners but was actually a relatively recent phenomenon that had been erected in the…

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