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Before Jim Crow : the politics of race in postemancipation Virginia /

Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the 19th-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dailey, Jane Elizabeth, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2000]
Colección:Gender & American culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the 19th-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, the author chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the colour line.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267 and index.
ISBN:9780807899182
0807899186
9781469604824
1469604825