The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.The StrangeĬareer of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South.
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