A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction - and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies, W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified ''the problem of the color-line'' as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color 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, Part One brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony, judicial opinions, letters, and poems and song lyrics - more than eighty essential texts in all - from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the bloody ''Red Summer'' of 1919. The volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals
