W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified ''the problem of the color-line'' as the defining issue in American life in the twentieth century. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the colour line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality. Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony and appeals, judicial opinions, and poems and song lyrics from the end of Reconstruction in 1876 to the Boston busing crisis of 1974-76. This volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including: - Frederick Douglass on the importance of voting rights - Ida B. Wells on the scourge of lynching - Richard T. Greener''s scathing critique of America''s ''White Problem'' - Booker T. Washington''s historic Atlanta address
