Remembering Jim Crow: African-Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. (Best Books of 2001).(Brief Article)

Remembering Jim Crow: African-Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New Pr. ed. by William Chafe & others. ISBN 1-56584-697-4. $55 with 2CD set.

Drawn from over 1200 interviews conducted in the early 1990s for Duke University's Behind the Veil Project, this book-and-CD set fills out our picture of daily life in the Jim Crow South. Witnesses recall the fear and stifled rage, the gauntlet of submissive rituals required of African Americans, and the small symbolic victories as …