Between 1880 and 1954; African Americans dedicated their energies; and sometimes their lives; to defeating segregation. During these times; characterized by some as “worse than slavery;†African Americans fought the status quo; acquiring education and land and building businesses; churches; and communities; despite laws designed to segregate and disenfranchise them. White supremacy prevailed; but did not destroy; the spirit of the black community.Incorporating anecdotes; the exploits of individuals; first-person accounts; and never- before-seen images and graphics; The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow is the story of the African American struggle for freedom following the end of the Civil War. A companion volume to the four-part PBS television series; which took seven years to write; research; and edit; the book documents the work of such figures as the activist and separatist Benjamin “Pap†Singleton; anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells; and W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. It examines the emergence of the black middle class and intellectual elite; and the birth of the NAACP. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow also tells the stories of ordinary heroes who accomplished extraordinary things: Charlotte Hawkins Brown; a teacher who founded the Palmer Memorial Institute; a private black high school in North Carolina; Ned Cobb; a tenant farmer in Alabama who became a union organizer; Isaiah Montgomery; who founded Mound Bayou; an all-black town in Mississippi; Charles Evers; brother of civil rights leader Medgar Evers; who fought for voter registration in Mississippi in the 1940s. And Barbara Johns; a sixteen-year-old Virginia student who organized a student strike in 1951. The strike led to a lawsuit that became one of the five cases the United States Supreme Court reviewed when it declared segregation in education illegal.As the twenty-first century rolls forward; we are losing the remaining survivors of this pivotal era. Rich in historical commentary and eyewitness testimony by blacks and whites who lived through the period; The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow is a poignant record of a time when indignity and terror constantly faced off against courage and accomplishment.
#937274 in Books Jamie H Cockfield 1999-07-02 1999-07-02Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .93 x 5.50l; 1.19 #File Name: 0312220820408 pagesWith Snow on their Boots The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great for any anyone interested in WW1 who has already ...By jeff weilInteresting read about the ordeal of the Russian soldiers that fought on the Western Front in WW1. Great for any anyone interested in WW1 who has already read all the books about the usual WW1 topics. Worth the money.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not for the casual historianBy Kevin WileyCockfield has written a book that is DENSE with the names of Russian Officers; French diplomats; and Russian/Soviet diplomats/political leaders. The book is clearly exhaustively researched following the mutiny and subsequent efforts by the French to coerce the mutineers back to the trenches or at the very least into labor units. The final third of the book chronicles the repatriation of the REF as well as Russian POWs from Germany - this in itself is an odyssey worthy of Homer and continued all the way to 1920.In the end however I can only give this book 2 stars due to the manner in which the author has aggravatingly laid out the story - jumping forward many months (or sometimes years) in the tale and the very next page backing up to an event that had happened many months before as if it was directly responsible for the future act. This disjointed; non-chronological story telling goes on throughout the entire book; and made finishing it a veritable challenge.I wanted to like this book as it relates such an obtuse tale from history; but in the end I can't recommend it unless you are researching this subject for some scholarly work.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Legend that Comes to LifeBy Rogerio de O. SouzaAs a reader of The Great War; I always thought that the coming of millions of russian soldiers to fight side by side with France in the Western Front was just a legend. The many views of russian troops crossing England by night trains and ready to embark and fight was like a desperate dream. Then I pick up the book of Jamie H Cockfield and know all the History about this eventfull drama.The book is really a masterpiece of the matter and is based in russian; french and english archives. All the details of ships; embarkment; landing; trains; etc. is brought to the reader in a pleasure way. You are transported to those terrible days. Cockfield told us how the events in Russia during the fall of the Romanovs and the Provisional Government; Kerensky and then the Bolshevist seizure of power have consequences in the men of the two Regiments that formed the Russian Expeditionary Force (REF). The men split themselves in two opposite groups and eventually one fight the other with french support. Many were put under arrest and others sent to Argelia as punishment. The REF still fought in the Western Front during 1916. 1917 brought indiscipline and internal disturbance. The french government then begun the negotiatons to send the men back Russia. While the Provisional Government didn't want more unrest troops inside Russia; the Bolshevist Government insist to bring the men and to use them as a propaganda tool. The book is very good and bring light to these historical events. Highly recommended.
