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remembering jim crow

Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, with Paul Ortiz, Robert Parish, Jennifer Ritterhouse, Keisha Roberts, and Nicole Waligora-Davis.

$55.00 boxed set: includes 304 pages | 50 photographs | complete American Radio Works documentary Remembering Jim Crow | audio selections from the Center for Documentary Studies Behind the Veil oral history collection

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South is an extraordinary opportunity to read and hear the voices of black southerners who were firsthand witnesses to one of the most heartbreaking and troubling chapters in America's history. Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book-and-CD set presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever recorded of African American life under segregation.

In vivid, compelling stories, men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression—in the workplace, on street corners, and above all, in the public facilities and institutions that systematically demeaned, disenfranchised, and disempowered black people, condemning them to second-class citizenship. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is 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 survival enriched by vivid memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies.

Published by the New Press in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.