Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years.
(Book)

"Published in association with the Library of Congress."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Linda Barrett Osborne shows the day to day experiences of African Americans in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a time of a deeply divided racially segrated United States of America. The information gleaned from photographs and interviews shows an America who used the labor and military service of a previously enslaved people but refused equality or recognition of that which was evident. The author presents a painful and powerful picture of the hardships African Americans endured at the hand of its own government. This legacy still affects attitudes, policies, and politics in the United States today.