Stony the road

Stony the road: reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow

"The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: If emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King,Jr's America? The author seeks to answer that question through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind."--Provided by the publisher.

adult

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

First published by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, in 2019.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 266-279) and index.