| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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William W. Giffin. African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915–1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. Pp. 312. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Cloth, $49.95; CD, $9.95.

In this work William Giffin provides a well-balanced, nuanced analysis of blacks' experiences in Ohio from the beginning of World War I through the onset of the Great Depression—the era of the twentieth century's first Great Black Migration. His study pivots around three themes: regional differences within Ohio in the intensity of new "color line" restrictions and in the nature of African-American responses; the centrality of local individuals' reactions to the growing restrictions placed on blacks; and African Americans increasing resistance to the expanding color line from 1915 to 1930—a resolve that foreshadowed the more robust northern civil rights movement after World War II.

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