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

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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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Book Title: Living with Jim Crow
Book Subtitle: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
Authors: Anne Valk, Leslie Brown
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109872
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62152-7Published: 11 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10987-2Published: 19 July 2010
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 209
Topics: Cultural History, History of the Americas, Social History, US History, Clinical Psychology, Modern History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

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

What Is Expected Of You: Gender and Sexuality

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

A Society Totally Our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life

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

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