TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Kimberley S. TI - Reforming Jim Crow: Southern politics and state in the age before Brown SN - 9780199776771 (ebook) : AV - E185.61 U1 - 323.1196073 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Brown, Oliver, KW - African Americans KW - Segregation KW - Civil rights KW - Southern States KW - History KW - Segregation in education KW - Race relations KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This text reshapes how we think about the origins of the civil rights era. The book paints a complex portrait of racial politics in the South in the first half of the 20th century and shows how the weaknesses in the Jim Crow system allowed reformers to lay some of the groundwork that would lead to the system's eventual collapse UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387421.001.0001 ER -