The book "Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920" by Glenda E. Gilmore, assistant professor of history, has received two awards from the Organization of American Historians: the James A. Rawley Prize for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States; and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, for an author's first book on some significant phase of American history. "Gender and Jim Crow" was released in 1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. In the book, Professor Gilmore examines, among other topics, the ways in which white supremacists used the image of African-American men as sexual predators of white women to prevent blacks from gaining political power.