James W Loewen
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Don't let the sun go down on you in this town." We equate these words with the Jim Crow South but, in a sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, award-winning and bestselling author James W. Loewen demonstrates that strict racial exclusion was the norm in American towns and villages from sea to shining sea for much of the twentieth century.
Weaving history, personal narrative, and hard-nosed analysis, Loewen shows that the sundown town...
Weaving history, personal narrative, and hard-nosed analysis, Loewen shows that the sundown town...