Foreword
Preface
A Note for Students
PART ONE.
Introduction: Segregation and the Age of Jim Crow
From Slavery to Segregation
Historians and the Origins of Racial Segregation
PART TWO.
Some Current Questions
1) When did the South capitulate to segregation?
C. Vann Woodward, from The Strange Career of Jim Crow
2) Was segregation the creation of custom or law?
Joel Williamson, from "The Separation of the Races"
3) Why were railroads the "contested terrain" of race relations in the postwar South?
Edward L. Ayers, from The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
4) What did segregation replace?
Howard N. Rabinowitz, "From Exclusion to Segregation: Southern Race Relations, 1865–1890,"
5) What role did gender play in railroad segregation?
Barbara Y. Welke, from "When All Women Were White and All the Blacks Were Men"(excerpt)
6) How did segregation enforce racial subordination?
Leon F. Litwack, from Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Making Connections
Suggestions for Further Reading