Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.
And in what walk of life, or dance of life, does man ever get such stimulating applause as thunders about him, when, having danced his partner off her feet, and himself too, he finishes by leaping gloriously on the bar-counter, and calling for something to drink, with the chuckle of a million of counterfeit
Jim Crows, in one inimitable sound!
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender; Punishment, and the Making of
Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
In Michelle Alexander's seminal work, The New
Jim Crow, she tells the story of Jarvious Cotton, a Black man disenfranchised by our criminal justice system: "Cotton's family tree tells the story of several generations of Black men who were denied the most basic freedom that democracy promises ...
The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the
Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism.
The
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Mich., has received a powerful collection of artwork by noted photographer David Levinthal valued at more than $2,000,000.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Gardendale, Alabama, which has an 88 percent white population, has made moves to secede in order to form a school that is mostly attended by white children, and is, in turn, reviving the monumental 63-year-old
Jim Crow era anti-segregation laws.
BEHIND THE VEIL is a digital collection documenting African American Life in the
Jim Crow South.
Understanding
Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and
Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland is an anthology of scholarly essays by learned authors discussing racial and gender oppression in the American heartland during the twentieth century.
Synopsis: A proper understanding of race relations in this country must include a solid knowledge of
Jim Crow in terms of how it emerged, what it was like, how it ended, and its impact on the culture.
In the segregated South, the often times contradictory nature of middle-class expectations for young black girls to be respectable and wholesome and the realities of
Jim Crow era assumptions that they were inherently impure created a challenging environment that had important consequences for their conceptions of themselves and the world.