MOST PEOPLE KNOW something of Jim Crow and the segregated South - even if only from melodramatic television and cinematic depictions.
How did this post-war social arrangement come into being? Was it a spontaneous codification of Southern racism or can its origins be found elsewhere? In SEGREGATION, New York playwright and historian.
It was a race-conscious society to be sure, but it was not segregated.
The antebellum South was not racially segregated.
Few, however, know how it came into being.
MOST PEOPLE KNOW something of Jim Crow and the segregated South - even if only from melodramatic television and cinematic depictions