The Age of Segregation: Race Relations in the South, 1890-1945 Edited by
Robert Haws Essays by Derrick Bell, Mary Frances Berry, Dan Carter,
Al-Tony Gilmore, Robert Higgs, and George Tindall In the decade of the
1890s, the southern states of the still-healing union institutionalized
a system of laws governing race relations which has been described
alternately as the South's second peculiar institution and, bluntly, as
apartheid. That system of proscribed race relations and separation
consigned black southerners to a status little removed from slavery. The
essays in The Age of Segregation: Race Relations in the South,
1890-1945, delivered by major scholars just after America's
bicentennial, concentrate on the economic and social conditions of
blacks and whites living under the sinister orthodoxy of Jim Crow. This
book is second in a three-part investigation which begins with What Was
Freedom's Price? and concludes with Have We Overcome? Race Relations
since Brown, 1954-1979. All three are available again in paperback from
University Press of Mississippi. Robert Haws is Chair of the Department
of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi.