The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Why would Martin Luther King Jr. say that this book is "Bible of the Civil Rights Movement?"

Why would Martin Luther King Jr. say that this book is "Bible of the Civil Rights Movement?"

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The term Jim Crow refers to a large body of law and social custom which served to establish and maintain segregation of the races in the South following the end of Reconstruction and moving into the mid-twentieth century. In his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Vann Woodward provides a complete historical accounting and significant analysis of its advent, its impact on race relations within and outside of the South, and its legal demise by 1965.