Hurricane Jim Crow

Caroline Grego is visiting assistant professor of history at Queens University of Charlotte.

"Hurricane Jim Crow is a gripping telling of human loss and heroic rescues, and community strength and perseverance. . . . [A] well-researched and important study of a region again in flux as development looms."--Journal of African American History "A valuable addition to the literature that places the environment at the center of the story of the coming of Jim Crow. In addition to her analytical verve and rapt storytelling, Grego has given historians a sympathetically rendered portrait of what was and what could have been in the lowcountry."--Journal of American History "Carefully researched and sensitively written. . . . Rather than focusing on whether the Great Sea Island Storm mattered, Hurricane Jim Crow demonstrates why it mattered. . . . [A] smart, sympathetic account of how Black South Carolinians fought to sustain their independence and security in the face of challenges natural and man-made."--Journal of Disaster Studies "Caroline Grego's painstaking research and clear writing is evident . . . [she] draws on multiple sources to weave her account of a major storm and its short- and long-term consequences"--North Carolina Historical Review "In Hurricane Jim Crow, Caroline Grego shows how the hurricane propelled the region away from Reconstruction's promises and toward Jim Crow. . . . This book attends not to the storm as a neatly bounded moment of crisis, but to its long aftermath: its lasting mark on both a landscape and a people."--Journal of Southern History