{"product_id":"9781595587626","title":"Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South","description":"Published in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South\u003c\/i\u003e is the \"viscerally powerful... compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era\" (\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMen and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet \u003ci\u003eRemembering Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e is also 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. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eRemembering Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A 'landmark book.'\" —\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Year in Books\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is not just an oral history for the South, but for us all. It is a sobering reminder of the mistakes this nation has made, a hopeful reflection on how far we have come.\" —\u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151226323184,"sku":"9781595587626","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595587626_p0.jpg?v=1763813360","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595587626","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}