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The accident of color, a story of race in Reconstruction, Daniel Brook

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The accident of color, a story of race in Reconstruction, Daniel Brook
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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mapsportraitsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The accident of color
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Daniel Brook
Sub title
a story of race in Reconstruction
Summary
Examines the lives of mixed-race people in antebellum Charleston and New Orleans, the efforts during Reconstruction to ensure their civil rights (including the integration of the University of South Carolina), and the ultimate loss of those rights in the Jim Crow South
Table Of Contents
Preface: down the memory hole -- Introduction: les ambassadeurs -- Misfit metropolises -- Strange Confederates -- Legally black -- Freedom riders -- Progress on parchment -- Browns versus Board of Education -- Radical university -- Laws and outlaws -- The great betrayal -- Fade to black and white -- Conclusion: living the lie
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