Title Before Jim Crow : the politics of race in postemancipation Virginia / Jane Dailey

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2000] ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Gender & American culture Gender & American culture. Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Origins of the Readjuster Movement -- Expanding the Circle of Honor: The Politics of Patronage -- Drawing the Line between Public and Private: Sex, Schools, and Liberalism -- Deference and Violence in Danville -- Making Black White and White Black: The Politics of Racial Identity -- Epilogue: The Voice of the People -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the 19th-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, the author chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the colour line Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267 and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed June 29, 2021) Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia. Race awareness -- Political aspects -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Sex role -- Political aspects -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Social classes -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 19th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Virginia POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Politics and government Politics and government Race awareness -- Political aspects Race relations -- Political aspects Sex role -- Political aspects Enslaved persons -- Emancipation Social classes Ethnische Beziehungen Rassenpolitik Rassenverhoudingen. Politieke aspecten. SUBJECT Virginia -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143777 Subject United States Virginia Virginia Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 00057723 ISBN 9780807899182 0807899186 9781469604824 1469604825

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