| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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Davison M. Douglas. Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865–1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 334. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.99.

Davison M. Douglas's Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865–1954 is a rare book whose title promises significantly less than the book actually offers. Douglas begins well before 1865, with an informative fifty-page overview of black education in the antebellum North. His definition of the "North" is generous enough to capture pretty much everywhere outside the Confederacy (with primary emphasis on the Northeast and Midwest). And he offers much more than just a history of school segregation, exploring major developments in the history of American education and efforts to protect civil rights outside the schools. Even when Douglas examines the nexus between race and education, he recognizes that segregated schooling was only one component of a complex system of racially unequal education. Of the many strengths of this book, one that stands out is Douglas's ability to make all these issues relevant, even essential, to his account. It is tightly written and never digressive, despite its wide-ranging subject matter.

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