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Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (repost)

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Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (repost)

Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia By Jane Dailey
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2000 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0807825875 | PDF | 1 MB

Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics.
Melding social, cultural, and political history, Jane Dailey chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the color line. She demonstrates that the power of racial rhetoric, and the divisiveness of racial politics, derived from the everyday experiences of individual Virginians–from their local encounters on the sidewalk, before the magistrate's bench, in the schoolroom.