Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private li

This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publ

This is a resource on racism and segregation in American life. The book is chronologically organized into five sections, each of which focuses on a different hi

For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an Af