The color line : a short introduction

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The color line : a short introduction

David Lyons

Routledge, 2020

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-132) and index

Contents of Works

  • The color line
  • Pre-contact North America and European colonization
  • Early Virginia
  • A slave system is established
  • Beyond Virginia
  • The founding
  • King cotton
  • More land and labor
  • Sectional conflicts and the color line
  • Civil War and reconstruction
  • Redemption and Jim Crow
  • Western Indians
  • Closing the door
  • An American empire
  • The great migration
  • Surviving and defying Jim Crow
  • The second reconstruction
  • The civil rights movement
  • Black separatism, armed self-defense, and urban disorders
  • The wider civil rights movement
  • Limits of the second reconstruction
  • The persistence of the color line
  • Where do we go from here - and how do we get there?

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