| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865–1954. By Davison M. Douglas. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x, 334 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 0-521-84564-5. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 0-521-60783-3.)
In Jim Crow Moves North, Davison M. Douglas tells the story of the struggle of northern blacks against school segregation during the period from the end of the Civil War to the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. This battle, according to Douglas, was very different from its southern counterpart and has received scant attention from historians and other scholars.	1
Douglas's starting point is the struggle of northern blacks for access to public schooling in the pre–Civil War period. While the common school movement of the day was promoting the establishment of elementary education, northern blacks were either excluded from such schools or were accommodated in decidedly inferior and segregated settings. It was in that context, Douglas argues, that blacks in the North began to protest their exclusion.	. . .

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