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Living with Jim Crow

African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Anne Valk
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  2. Leslie Brown
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History (PSOH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Foundation Was There: Growing up a Girl in the Jim Crow South

    • Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
    Pages 17-51

  4. What Is Expected Of You: Gender and Sexuality

    • Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
    Pages 53-78

  5. You Are All Under Bondage, Which Is True: Working Lives

    • Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
    Pages 79-112

  6. A Society Totally Our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life

    • Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
    Pages 113-138

  7. I Like To Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change

    • Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
    Pages 139-171

  8. Afterword

    • Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
    Pages 173-176

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 177-209
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About this book

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.

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"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

About the authors

ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA.   LESLIE BROWN is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham.

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