Whilst down South I decided to read a book about the South. Specifically about Jim Crow and desegregation. My brother is a public history major and specializes in Louisiana history - so he had quite a few books to choose from. The one I picked The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward is essentially a series of essays published as a short history. It was very readable, and his argument was convincing, but it is not in any way an introduction to the subject. I am ashamed to admit that I didn't know enough about major events in Southern U.S. history to totally follow the names, events, and theories that Woodward referenced throughout.
But I did like this quote:
"When a scientific theory ceases to account for the observed facts of common experience, however, it would seem to be time to discard the theory." (109).
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