A Chance to Make Good: African Americans 1900-1929

by James R. Grossman

Many people think of the first three decades of the 20th century as the formative years of Jim Crow, or legal segregation, a time when African Americans shared in the aspirations and expectations of their fellow citizens, but who did so as a people with a unique set of barriers to overcome. In
the South, segregation had become a way of life. In the North, opportunities for work were hard to come by in the face of a less overt racism. Yet, even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087704
• ISBN13: 9780195087703
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12