Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South

Through ten interviews, African American elders describe their lives in the American South under Jim Crow. The book presents their oral histories alongside archival photographs and an appendix explaining people, places, events, and terms. These firsthand accounts focus on the experiences of Black people who grew up during the era of legally enforced racial segregation, preserving individual memories within a larger history of the South and its communities over time.