Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

by L. Brown, A. Valk

Overview

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230621527
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/11/2011
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA. LESLIE BROWN is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Series Editors' Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life Behind the Veil 1

Chapter 1 The Foundation Was There: Growing up a Girl in the Jim Crow South 17

Chapter 2 What Is Expected of You: Gender and Sexuality 53

Chapter 3 You Are All Under Bondage, Which Is True: Working Lives 79

Chapter 4 A Society Totally Our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life 113

Chapter 5 I Like To Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change 139

Afterword 173

Appendix A List of Interviews 177

Appendix B Sample Edited Transcript, from Interview Ila J. Blue 181

Notes 185

Index 203

Editorial Reviews

"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

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