Tyina L. Steptoe
Associate professor of history and editor of the two-volume Library of America collection Jim Crow, Voices from a Century of Struggle; author of Houston Bound, with expertise in Jim Crow-era cultural and social history.
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Apr 14, 2026 • 1h 1min
Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
Keisha N. Blain, scholar of Black women's activism; Manisha Sinha, historian of Reconstruction and 19th-century law; Tyina L. Steptoe, editor of a Jim Crow writings collection. They read powerful firsthand texts. They trace anti-lynching struggles, transit and Tulsa as battlegrounds, legal dissents and segregationist rhetoric. They discuss memory, erasure, and how these voices still resonate today.
Apr 14, 2026 • 1h 1min
Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
Keisha N. Blain, historian of Black women's activism; Manisha Sinha, scholar of Reconstruction and civil rights law; Tyina L. Steptoe, editor of the Library of America Jim Crow volumes and R&B historian. They read powerful firsthand accounts. They trace lynching, legal fights like Plessy, mass migration, Tulsa's destruction, transit battles, and the long arc from Jim Crow toward the civil rights era.
