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The accident of color : a story of race in Reconstruction /

A history of the first civil rights movement and the origins of black and white in America. When we hear "civil rights," we tend to think of the 1950s and 1960s activism that put an end to Jim Crow segregation laws. In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook takes us to New Orleans and Charles...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brook, Daniel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Racially mixed people > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > South Carolina > Charleston.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Racism > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Racism > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century > Case studies.

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