About the Author

William H. Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History emeritus at Duke University and is the author of numerous books.

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is the Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. He received his BA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include twentieth-century U.S. history, labor history, African American history, and contemporary social policy, and he is the co-director of a major documentary research project at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South.

Reviews

Praise for Remembering Jim Crow:
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award

Winner of the Carey McWilliams Award “A landmark book.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Powerful.”
—Booklist

“A shivering dose of reality and inspiring stories of everyday resistance.”
—Library Journal

“A multimedia triumph.”
—Kansas City Star