The Strange Career of Jim Crow is amongst the remarkably famous handiwork of Southern history. This book undeniably helped influence that history. It was launched in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education prearranged schools unified. It was mentioned frequently to contradict opinions for separation that Martin Luther King, Jr. cited.

The book delivers a vivid and enlightening scrutiny of the Jim Crow laws’ historical account, staging proof that separation in the Southern part dated only toward the 1890s. Woodward credibly reveals that even under bitter slavery, the two races were not separated since they were covered by the 1890s Jim Crow laws. As a matter of fact, during the times of Reconstruction in the South, there was significant political and economic amalgamation of both races. Acclaimed as one of the topmost 100 nonfiction writings of the 20th century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold nearly a million copies and continues to be a symbol in the American race relations history.

The writer, Professor C. Vann Woodward is America's most distinguished Southern historian. He departed this life in 1999 when he was 91 years old, and is the victor of a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Mary Chestnut's Civil War as well as a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. To pay tribute to his long and genuinely illustrious career, Oxford University Press is delighted to publish an exceptional memorial edition of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Woodward's most powerful masterpiece.

Further than these things, Woodward, one of USA’s greatest scholars, perceived the Jim Crow period and its downfall outstandingly and was particularly provoking at the time they were written. It continues to be not only an excellent history and a crucial source record of its epoch, but imperative to a correct perception of the South.