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| Author | C. Vann Woodward |
|---|---|
| Published | 1955 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
The Strange Career of Jim Crow is a nonfiction book written by historian C. Vann Woodward about the development, origins, and history of Jim Crow laws in the southern United States. Woodward adapted the book from a series of lectures he gave at the University of Virginia during the summer of 1954, shortly after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial school segregation in the United States was unconstitutional. The Strange Career principally argues that segregation was a late development in southern history, as chattel slavery in the United States entailed frequent biracial interaction, and after the Civil War Jim Crow segregation laws did not widely take hold until the 1890s. In Woodward's articulation, the upshot of this was that since the inauguration of southern racial segregation had already been transformative, its abolition was reasonable. In the words of historian William S. McFeely, The Strange Career "modestly stated" a "call for the overthrow of" racial segregation in the United States.
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Popular myth holds that civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. called The Strange Career "the historical Bible of the Civil Rights Movement" in a speech at Montgomery, Alabama on March 23, 1956, though he did cite the book by name as evidence that racial segregation was "a political stratagem", in King's words, and not a natural state of post-Civil War American society.[1]
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- ^ Cobb (2022, p. 182).
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- Cobb, James C. (2022). C. Vann Woodward: America's Historian. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-7021-8.
- McFeely, William S. (2001). "Afterword". The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Oxford University Press. pp. 221–232.
Journals[edit]
- Brewer, W. M. (October 1955). "The Strange Career of Jim Crow. By C. Vann Woodward". Journal of African American History. 40 (4): 379–382. doi:10.2307/2715665. JSTOR 2715665.
- Clement, Rufus E. (November 1955). "The Strange Career of Jim Crow. By C. Vann Woodward". Journal of Southern History. 21 (4): 557–559. doi:10.2307/2955075. JSTOR 2955075.
- Gordon, Milton M. (January 1956). "Vann C. Woodward. The Strange Career of Jim Crow". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 303: 219. JSTOR 1032328.
- Jackson, Edna Burke (April 1967). "The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Second Revised Edition. By. C. Vann Woodward". The Journal of African American History. 52 (2): 159–160. doi:10.2307/2716137. JSTOR 2716137.
- Lewis, Elsie M. (Autumn 1957). "The Strange Career of Jim Crow". Journal of Negro Education. 26 (4): 480–481. doi:10.2307/2293497. JSTOR 2293497.
- Nichols, C. Howard (Autumn 1975). "The Strange Career of Jim Crow. By C. Vann Woodward". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 16 (4): 433–434. JSTOR 4231533.
- Rabinowitz, Howard N. (December 1988). "More Than the Woodward Thesis: Assessing The Strange Career of Jim Crow". The Journal of American History. 75 (3): 842–856. doi:10.2307/1901533. JSTOR 1901533.
- Richards, Eugene S. (October 1955). "The Strange Career of Jim Crow. By C. Vann Woodward". American Sociological Review. 20 (5): 603–604. doi:10.2307/2092589. JSTOR 2092589.
- Walker, Harry J. (September 1957). "The Strange Career of Jim Crow. By C. Vann Woodward". American Journal of Sociology. 63 (2): 234–235. JSTOR 2773930.