South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900

By George Brown Tindall

Book Overview

First published in 1952, South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 rediscovers a time and a people nearly erased from public memory. In this pathbreaking book, George B. Tindall turns to the period after Reconstruction before a tide of reaction imposed a new system of controls on the black population of the state. He examines the progress and achievements, along with the frustrations, of South Carolina's African Americans in politics, education, labor, and various aspects of social life during the short decades before segregation became the law and custom of the land. Chronicling the evolution of Jim Crow white supremacy, the book originally appeared on the eve of the Civil Rights movement when the nation's system of disfranchisement, segregation, and economic oppression was coming under increasing criticism and attack.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003494X
• ISBN13: 9781570034947
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"