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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1955
- Pages
- Pages 233
A Charleston newspaper set out to ridicule the idea of segregated railway cars by following it to its absurd end: separate cars, then separate sections in every waiting room, separate Bibles to swear on in court, separate corners of the graveyard. Within a generation nearly the whole joke was law.
Segregation in complete and full developed form did grow up contemporaneously with slavery, but not in its midst.
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