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Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

Jaha Nailah Avery

Ages: 14+

Published: 2023

Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books/Levine Querido

ISBN: 978-1-64614-244-6

Keywords: Oral Histories, African American Segregation History, Jim Crow

Ten engaging interviews of African American elders describing their lives in the South during the Jim Crow era. Archival photographs. Appendix of people, places, events, and terms.