Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow Jim Crow was not a regio

Most observers have assumed that school segregation in the United States was exclusively a southern phenomenon. In fact, many northern communities, until recent

Discusses the reversal of desegration in public schools

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War

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