| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xii, 183 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-244-5.)

Civil rights movement histories that narrate the movement from segregation to integration limit our understanding of the important roles played by black entrepreneurs. Nurtured by the concentrated black business districts that were themselves supported by residential segregation, black business leaders nonetheless contributed to building the autonomy, organizational networks, and civic leadership that contributed to the destruction of Jim Crow. Ironically, the triumph against mandatory legal segregation precipitated such blows as urban renewal, which wreaked havoc on black institutions and business networks in a yet racist society.

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