Donald E Devore: 1 book
Defying Jim Crow
African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship, was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories of fluid race relations and post-Civil...
