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Author |
: Davison Douglas |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2005-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521607833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521607834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jim Crow Moves North by : Davison Douglas
Most observers have assumed that school segregation in the United States was exclusively a southern phenomenon. In fact, many northern communities, until recently, engaged in explicit "southern style" school segregation whereby black children were assigned to "colored" schools and white children to white schools. Davison Douglas examines why so many northern communities did engage in school segregation (in violation of state laws that prohibited such segregation) and how northern blacks challenged this illegal activity. He analyzes the competing visions of black empowerment in the northern black community as reflected in the debate over school integration.
Author |
: Stephen A. Berrey |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2015-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469620947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469620944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jim Crow Routine by : Stephen A. Berrey
The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes. Every day, individuals made, unmade, and remade Jim Crow in how they played their racial roles--how they moved, talked, even gestured. The highly visible but often subtle nature of these interactions constituted the Jim Crow routine. In this study of Mississippi race relations in the final decades of the Jim Crow era, Berrey argues that daily interactions between blacks and whites are central to understanding segregation and the racial system that followed it. Berrey shows how civil rights activism, African Americans' refusal to follow the Jim Crow script, and national perceptions of southern race relations led Mississippi segregationists to change tactics. No longer able to rely on the earlier routines, whites turned instead to less visible but equally insidious practices of violence, surveillance, and policing, rooted in a racially coded language of law and order. Reflecting broader national transformations, these practices laid the groundwork for a new era marked by black criminalization, mass incarceration, and a growing police presence in everyday life.
Author |
: Erik S. Gellman |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807869932 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807869937 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death Blow to Jim Crow by : Erik S. Gellman
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as necessary for reinvigorating American democracy. Much more than just a precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement, this activism created the most militant interracial freedom movement since Reconstruction, one that sought to empower the American labor movement to make demands on industrialists, white supremacists, and the state as never before. By focusing on the complex alliances between unions, civic groups, and the Communist Party in five geographic regions, Gellman explains how the NNC and its allies developed and implemented creative grassroots strategies to weaken Jim Crow, if not deal it the "death blow" they sought.
Author |
: C. Vann Woodward |
Publisher |
: Turtleback Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2001-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0613586743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780613586740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Strange Career of Jim Crow by : C. Vann Woodward
This third revised edition of Woodward's classic study of the history of the Jim Crow laws and of American race relations in general includes a new chapter on the tragic events that have occurred since 1965, including the Watts riots, the murder of Martin Luther King, white backlash encouraged by black activism, and the shift in national mood resulting from the election of Richard Nixon into the White House. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author |
: Matthew George Washington |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2024-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781985900257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1985900254 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jim Crow North by : Matthew George Washington
Located approximately forty miles northwest of Philadelphia, the working-class borough of Pottstown does not immediately come to mind as an influential site of the Black freedom struggle. Yet this small town in Pennsylvania served as a significant hub of interracial civil rights activism with regional as well as national impact. In The Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Matthew George Washington adds another interpretive perspective to historiography by using both the "freedom North" and the "long civil rights movement" theoretical models to frame the borough's unique history. Primary documents, including newspaper accounts, census records, oral histories, and correspondence present a vivid account of a rapidly changing town, from the dawn of its civil rights movement during World War II to the revitalization of its NAACP branch in the early 1950s and its activism throughout the 1960s. Placing special emphasis on the demographic nature of the movement, Washington explores how interracial collaboration among the working class made up the movement's critical base—and how, through it all, Black activists remained front and center. This critical examination of Pottstown illuminates the struggle for African American civil rights in one of the long-ignored urban spaces of the North, providing a rich and in-depth portrait of the Black freedom struggle of postwar America.
Author |
: Jane Elizabeth Dailey |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807849014 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807849019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Jim Crow by : Jane Elizabeth Dailey
Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics. Melding social, cultural, and political history, Jane Dailey chronicles the Readjusters' efforts to foster political cooperation across the color line. She demonstrates that the power of racial rhetoric, and the divisiveness of racial politics, derived from the everyday experiences of individual Virginians_from their local encounters on the sidewalk, before the magistrate's bench, in the schoolroom. In the process, she reveals the power of black and white southerners to both create and resist new systems of racial discrimination. The story of the Readjusters shows how hard white southerners had to work to establish racial domination after emancipation, and how passionately black southerners fought each and every infringement of their rights as Americans.
Author |
: Michelle Alexander |
Publisher |
: The New Press |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2020-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620971949 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620971941 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Jim Crow by : Michelle Alexander
Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
Author |
: Brett Gadsden |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2012-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812207972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812207971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between North and South by : Brett Gadsden
Between North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated popular complaints about the inequities in Jim Crow schooling into challenges to racial proscriptions in public education. Their legal victories subsequently provided the evidentiary basis for the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, marking Delaware as a center of civil rights advancements. Gadsden's further examination of a novel metropolitan approach to address the problem of segregation in city and suburban schools, wherein proponents highlighted the web of state-sponsored discrimination that produced interrelated school and residential segregation, reveals the strategic creativity of civil rights activists. He shows us how, even in the face of concerted white opposition, these activists continued to advance civil rights reforms into the 1970s, secured one of the most progressive busing remedies in the nation, and created a potential model for desegregation efforts across the United States. Between North and South also explores how activists on both sides of the contest in this border state—adjacent to the Mason-Dixon line—helped create, perpetuate, and contest ideas of southern exceptionalism and northern innocence. Gadsden offers instead a new framework in which "southern-style" and "northern-style" modes of racial segregation and discrimination are revealed largely as regional myths that civil rights activists and opponents alternately evoked and strategically deployed to both advance and thwart reform.
Author |
: Thomas J. Sugrue |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 738 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812970388 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812970381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sweet Land of Liberty by : Thomas J. Sugrue
Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history. He uncovers the forgotten stories of battles to open up lunch counters, beaches, and movie theaters in the North; the untold history of struggles against Jim Crow schools in northern towns; the dramatic story of racial conflict in northern cities and suburbs; and the long and tangled histories of integration and black power. Filled with unforgettable characters and riveting incidents, and making use of information and accounts both public and private, such as the writings of obscure African American journalists and the records of civil rights and black power groups, Sweet Land of Liberty creates an indelible history.
Author |
: John Dittmer |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 564 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0252065077 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252065071 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Local People by : John Dittmer
Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi