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Subject(s)

• Racism—United States [Browse]
• United States—History—1865-1921 [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—History [Browse]

Editor

• Steptoe, Tyina L., 1975- [Browse]

Series

• Library of America ; 376. [More in this series]
• The Library of America ; 376

Summary note

This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 632-700) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / by Tyina L. Steptoe
• 1876-1896
• 1897-1909
• 1909-1919
• Chronology
• Note on the texts.

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Other title(s)

• Voices from a century of struggle
• Reconstruction to the Red Summer

ISBN

• 1598537660 ((hardcover))
• 9781598537666 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2023938933

OCLC

1379266148

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