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Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A. : the laws, customs and etiquette governing the conduct of nonwhites and other minorities as second-class citizens /

"Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kennedy, Stetson (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work of permanent value for scholars and of exceptional appeal for general readers"--Publisher's description.
Notas:Originally published: Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A : the laws, customs, and etiquette governing the conduct of nonwhites and other minorities as second-class citizens / by Stetson Kennedy. London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1959.
Also published as: Jim Crow guide : the way it was / Stetson Kennedy. ©1990.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:9780817385644
0817385649