01689nam a2200361 a 4500 EDZ0000076150 StDuBDS 20171010092915.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100505s2010 nyu fo 001 0 eng d 9780199776771 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS E185.61 323.1196073 22 Johnson, Kimberley S., 1966- Reforming Jim Crow : Southern politics and state in the age before Brown / [electronic resource] Kimberley Johnson. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (x, 326 p.) Includes bibliographical references and index. This text reshapes how we think about the origins of the civil rights era. The book paints a complex portrait of racial politics in the South in the first half of the 20th century and shows how the weaknesses in the Jim Crow system allowed reformers to lay some of the groundwork that would lead to the system's eventual collapse. Description based on print version record. Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961. African Americans Segregation. African Americans Civil rights. Civil rights Southern States History. Segregation in education Southern States History. Southern States Race relations. Southern States Politics and government. Print version 9780195387421 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387421.001.0001 ddc BK 37939 37939