Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

Living with Jim Crow

African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

By
Anne M. Valk
Anne M. Valk,
Leslie Brown
Leslie Brown
2010 • 228 pages

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.

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Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Palgrave Studies in Oral History is a 7-book series first released in 1999 with contributions by Alessandro Portelli, David P. Cline, and Anne M. Valk.

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