A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II
Apr 2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunityslim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibilityto remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the warand especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870sAmerican society witnessed the evolution of a new white republic as national leaders abandoned the promise of Reconstruction and justified their racial biases based on political, economic, social, and religious values that supplanted the old North-South/slavery-abolitionist schism of the antebellum era.
A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of this too often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstructionfrom the beginnings of legal segregation through the end of World War II. Michael J. Martinez argues that the 1880s ushered in the dark night of the American Negroa night so dark and so long that the better part of a century would elapse before sunlight broke through. Combining both a top down perspective on crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a bottom up discussion of the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.
A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of this too often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstructionfrom the beginnings of legal segregation through the end of World War II. Michael J. Martinez argues that the 1880s ushered in the dark night of the American Negroa night so dark and so long that the better part of a century would elapse before sunlight broke through. Combining both a top down perspective on crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a bottom up discussion of the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunityslim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibilityto remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was ...
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J. Michael Martinez is an attorney and author of numerous articles and five books, including Terrorist Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War Era to the Present (2012), Coming for to Carry Me Home: Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow (2011), and Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux, Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire during Reconstruction (2007).
J. Michael Martinez is an attorney and author of numerous articles and five books, including Terrorist Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War Era to the Present (2012), Coming for to Carry Me Home: Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow (2011), and Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku ...
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