Book

Remembering Jim Crow : African Americans tell about life in the segregated South / edited by William H. Chafe [and others].

New York : New Press, 2001.

xxxv, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 2 audio discs (60 min. each : digital : 4 3/4 in.)

digital optical 1.4 m. per second

audio file CD audio

Sound discs contains: Disc 1. Remembering Jim Crow: an American RadioWorks Documentary -- Disc 2. Voices from Behind the Veil: Selections from the Behind the Veil Project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation. Men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet Remembering Jim Crow is also a testament to how black southerners fought back against systemic racism--building churches and schools, raising children, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.

African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.

African Americans -- Southern States -- Interviews.

Oral history.

Southern States -- Race relations.

Southern States -- Biography.

Oral histories.

Chafe, William H., 1942-

Behind the Veil Project.

Recollections taken from interviews compiled by the Behind the Veil Project at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Accompanying sound recordings contain the complete American RadioWorks documentary and additional selections from the Behind the Veil Project.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-335) and index.

Host of the American RadioWorks documentary, Remembering Jim Crow: Deborah Amos.

Lillian Smith Book Award, 2002

Bitter truths -- Heritage and memory -- Families and communities -- Lessons well learned -- Work -- Resistance and political struggles -- Remembering Jim Crow: the radio documentary transcript -- Voices from behind the veil: selections from the Center for Documentary Studies track list.

Remembering Jim Crow: an American RadioWorks documentary -- Voices from behind the veil: selections from the Center for Documentary Studies Oral History Collection.

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