Description: Thomas Adams Upchurch contends that the Fifty-First Congress, in trying to solve the race problem, in fact began the process of making racism socially and politically acceptable for a whole generation, inadvertently giving birth to the Jim Crow era of American history.
Brief description: Thomas Adams Upchurch is assistant professor of History at East Georgia College in Statesboro.
Review Quotes:
Casts the rise of Jim Crow in a broader context of racial ill-feeling toward African Americans, native Americans, and Chinese immigrants, all of whom suffered at the hands of the 'Billion Dollar' Congress.
-- "Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University"