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Pages: 418
Pages: 418
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
"Historians, sports scholars, and students will refer to Benching Jim Crow for many years to come as the standard source on the integration of intercollegiate s
Language: en
Pages: 402
Pages: 402
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-16 - Publisher: New Press, The
This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publ
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-08 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these times, characterized by som
Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-15 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press
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