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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Study Guide

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by Ernest Gaines
About 62 pages (18,517 words)
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1870s: The Emancipation Proclamation ends the legal sanction of slavery. However, many blacks remain in the South either as sharecroppers or subsistence wage laborers,

1950s and 1960s: The Civil Rights movement slowly spreads across the South. The biggest scenes surround the bus boycotts and marches led by leaders like Martin Luther King. Elsewhere in the South, however, Jim Crow laws remain unchallenged but changing.

Today: Several federal Civil Rights Acts allow persons unfairly treated due to color, sex, or creed full recourse of the law.

1870s: The sudden disruption to Southern life and identity caused by the release of the slaves and defeat in the Civil War leads to the emergence of terror groups like the KKK. These groups prevent the full implementation of Reconstruction, the realization of equal rights,.....

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