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Jim Crow Laws - in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and muncipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate facilities for whites and blacks were constitutional encouraged the passage of


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    Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century (Chap. 2 "Living Jim Crow: The Atlanta Riot and Unmasking 'Social Equality'") » Read Now

    by Kevin K. Gaines. 314 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...they encountered discrimination in a Jim Crow army and harassment from white citizens...combined with antiblack violence and Jim Crow in the South, complicated matters...be...
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    The Negro in American Civilization (Chap. 9 "From Reconstruction to Jim Crow") » Read Now

    by Nathaniel Weyl. 360 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...equal protection of the laws." Or, as George Mason...From Reconstruction to Jim Crow 101 10...THE ENLIGHTENMENT "Bad laws having made lazy men, they...MONTESQUIEU. The...
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    From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality » Read Now

    by Michael J. Klarman. 653 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Do Supreme Court decisions matter? In 1896 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that railroad segregation laws were permissible under the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1954 the Court's decision in Brown v. the Board of Education held that the same constitutional provision...
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    Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (Chap. One "It Was Just Like Living in Two Worlds: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South, 1910-1940") » Read Now

    by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. 218 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This study examines the migrated and community-building efforts of African-American women who moved from the South to the East Bay during World War II. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with former migrants, it details who these women were, how they experienced the migration, and how they used their...
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    Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia » Read Now

    by J. Douglas Smith. 407 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education decision.

    Smith draws on official records, private correspondence...

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    Disfigured Images: The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women (Chap. 3 "The Age of Jim Crow: White and Black Stories of Slave Women") » Read Now

    by Patricia Morton. 174 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly," writes Morton whose book exposes a multitude of dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarly studies of the history of the Afro-American woman. Disfigured Images explores the "literature of fact" concerning black women...
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    Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 (Chap. 21 "'I'd Kind of Outlived My Usefulness': The Changing Context of Civil Rights Litigation") » Read Now

    by Mark V. Tushnet. 406 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin Luther King could...
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    Jim Crow's Coming Out: Race Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Truman Years, in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now

    by Thomas Borstelmann. 21 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...state of Missouri at a time of fierce Jim Crow discrimination and violence, his slave-owning...racism at home, not a quiet return to a Jim Crow society of poverty...
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    Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956 (Chap. 7 "I Will Not Live in Peace with Jim Crow: CRC in the South") » Read Now

    by Gerald Horne. 458 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...1948 they launched their "I Shall Not Live at Peace with Jim Crow" campaign. Although this campaign was criticized sharply...also that it was dangerously ambiguous, because...
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    The Abolitionists: A Collection of Their Writings ("A Negro Abolitionist Protests against Jim Crow Railroads in Massachusetts" begins on p. 179) » Read Now

    by Louis Ruchames. 255 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...demanded this perpetual violation of the laws of God and the rights of man, this continual...the Constitution in consequence of the laws of some of the slave states...
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    America's Struggle for Racial Equality, in Policy Review » Read Now

    by Charles T. Canady. 6 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...The institution of slavery and Jim Crow laws both violated the fundamental American...segregation statutes, also known as Jim Crow laws. Historian C. Vann Woodward...
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    African-American Soldiers and Filipinos: Racial Imperialism, Jim Crow and Social Relations, in The Journal of Negro History » Read Now

    by Scot Ngozi-Brown. 12 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...qualifications, and discriminatory laws which practically eliminated...intellectual backwardness.(12) Jim Crows Beach House in the...violence were hallmarks of Jim Crow...
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    Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy ("Fear, Hope, and Struggle: Recasting Black North Carolina in the Age of Jim Crow" begins on p. 185) » Read Now

    by David S. Cecelski, Timothy B. Tyson. 304 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This study draws together scholarship on the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and its aftermath. Contributors hope to draw attention to the tragedy, to honour its victims, and to bring a clear historical voice to the debate over its legacy.
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    Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change (Chap. 5 "Status, Ideology, and Dimensions of Whites' Racial Beliefs and Attitudes: Progress and Stagnation" begins on p. 93) » Read Now

    by Steven A. Tuch, Jack K. Martin. 266 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    More than half a century has passed since the publication of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Gunnar Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American life. Central to Myrdal's work was the paradox...
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    Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944 (Chap. 11 "The Conservative Course in Race Relations") » Read Now

    by John T. Kneebone. 314 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Nation" implied that the triumph of the southern whites that overthrew Radical Reconstruction led directly to the Jim Crow laws. For southern reformers, this interpretation...
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    Brown's Reflection, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now

    by Robert A. Burt. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...only important exceptions are the Jim Crow laws in the Southern states. But even...striking directly at the keystone of the Jim Crow regime: the "separate but...

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