American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow

"A very powerful and unsettling story of our nation's century-long 'pogrom' by vengeful white Southerners against their black neighbors." —The Washington Times

For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.

The purpose of Jim Crow was...