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Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women´s memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.

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Black women recount in their own words memories of legal segregation in the American South This groundbreaking book collects black women´s personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women´s role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities of women´s experiences, as well as the ways that women´s lives differed from the experiences of southern black men, Living with Jim Crow analyzes the interlocking forces of racism and sexism .

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Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil Kin to Everybody: Childhood Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan You are all under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives A Society Totally our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change

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"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

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ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA. LESLIE BROWN is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham.

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