Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations.
The book became part of a revolution...
The Civil Rights Movement had changed Woodward's South and his slim, quietly insistent book...had contributed to that change.'.
As William McFeely describes in the new afterword, 'the slim volume's social consequence far outstripped its importance to academia.
McFeely, former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize.
The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S.
It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries-old way of life.
This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s.
Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations
