Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-70 (Contributions in American History)

by Abel A . Bartley (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $117.88

  This work attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system. It reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic pressure to improve their situation and force politicians to make moderate adjustments in the Jim Crow system.