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Segregation in the United States

Chafe, William Henry, ed. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New Press, 2001. A moving oral history of a brutal and demeaning era.

Haskins, James S. Separate but Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle. Scholastic, 1997. The efforts by African Americans to achieve equality in education; for younger readers.

Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. Knopf, 1998. Life for blacks in the South after the Civil War.

Packard, Jerrold M. American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow. St. Martin's, 2002. Provides an excellent overview of the Jim Crow era.

Parks, Rosa. My Story. Dial Books for Children, Reprint, Puffin, 1991. 1999. The woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus talks about her upbringing and her role in the civil rights movement.

Rowan, Carl T. South of Freedom. Reprint, Louisiana State University Press, 1997. First-hand account of segregated life by an African American journalist; first published in 1952.

Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 3rd rev. ed., 1974, 2001. A classic study that initiated an ongoing debate over the origins of segregation after the Civil War.

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