Remembering Jim Crow

<p><strong>A timely paperback reissue of the stunning prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts</strong></p><p>Praised as “viscerally powerful” (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>) this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years through first-person interviews carefully collected by researchers at Duke University’s Behind the Veil project. Newly relevant today as Americans reckon with the legacies of slavery and strive for racial equality <em>Remembering Jim Crow</em> provides vivid compelling accounts by men and women from all walks of life who tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression.</p><p>“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance” (<em>Library Journal</em>) <em>Remembering Jim Crow</em> is a testament to how Black Southerners fought back against the system raising children building churches and schools running businesses and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. Collectively these narratives illuminate individual and community survival and tell a powerful story of the American past that is crucial for us to remember as we grapple with Jim Crow’s legacies in the present.</p>