This âviscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow eraâ won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisherâs Weekly, starred review).  Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke Universityâs Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation.  Men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet Remembering Jim Crow is also a testament to how black southerners fought back against systemic racismâbuilding churches and schools, raising children, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.
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