Jerrold M. Packard is the author of Farewell in Splendor, American Nightmare, and The Lincolns in the White House, among other books.
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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial 'etiquette,' these rules governed nearly every aspect of life&... SEE MORE