Jim Crow
Voices from a Century of Struggle 1876-1976 (boxed set)
Book • 2025
This two-volume Library of America edition, edited by Tyina L. Steptoe, compiles primary documents, essays, speeches, and firsthand accounts spanning 1876–1976 that illuminate the experience of racial segregation, disenfranchisement, and resistance in the United States.
The collection foregrounds voices across the Black freedom struggle—journalists, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens—documenting legal segregation, racial violence, and strategies of resistance.
Steptoe contextualizes these writings to show how the Jim Crow regime was both legally enforced and socially enforced across the nation, not only in the South.
The volumes include juxtaposed texts such as anti-segregation dissent, segregationist rhetoric, and pivotal speeches to help readers see the contest of ideas and power.
Designed for both scholars and general readers, the set serves as a resource for understanding the long arc of racial struggle and its legacies into the present.
The collection foregrounds voices across the Black freedom struggle—journalists, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens—documenting legal segregation, racial violence, and strategies of resistance.
Steptoe contextualizes these writings to show how the Jim Crow regime was both legally enforced and socially enforced across the nation, not only in the South.
The volumes include juxtaposed texts such as anti-segregation dissent, segregationist rhetoric, and pivotal speeches to help readers see the contest of ideas and power.
Designed for both scholars and general readers, the set serves as a resource for understanding the long arc of racial struggle and its legacies into the present.
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