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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Jim Crow"”.
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Black Policemen in Jim Crow New Orleans
… during this period was completely defined by Jim Crow. This work presents updated and corrected evidence that Blacks were enrolled in the New Orleans Police Department during the time of Jim Crow, challenging the notion that after 1909 Blacks in New Orleans were not part of the police …
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The legacy of African American teachers in Jim Crow Mississippi
This study examines the educational philosophies and classroom practices of African American teachers in Mississippi prior to desegregation. The author collected the oral histories of fifteen former teachers and students from rural and urban districts across the state of Mississippi. Their …
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Coloring Outside the Lines: The Brownies' Book, Literacy, and "Jim Crow"
African American print journalism.
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Between North and South: the politics of race in Jim Crow Memphis
… North and South: The Politics of Race in Jim Crow Memphis,” uses the history of Memphis, TN as a case study to argue for the role of place in understanding racial knowledge and politics in U.S. History. Situated near the borders of the Mason-Dixon Line, I argue that Memphis should be …
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"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965
… the late 1890s to the formal dissolution of the Jim Crow regime in the mid-1960s, this study posits the Baha'i movement in South Carolina as a significant, sustained, and deceptively subtle attack on the oppressive racial ideologies of the twentieth-century South and on the Protestant orthodoxy …
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Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
… three Southern urban centers during the time of Jim Crow or institutionalized segregation: Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans.</p><p>This analysis is based on a series of tape-recorded oral history interviews that were conducted as part of the Behind the Veil project at Duke University. The …
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From Their Own Voices: The Lived Experiences of African Americans Exposed to Jim Crow
… the effects of being exposed to the laws of the "Jim Crow" era. This study sought to illuminate the lived experiences of African Americans who were exposed to the racial caste system known as Jim Crow. This inquiry looked at transgenerational trauma, exploring exposure to decades of legal …
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Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Redevelop a Jim Crow State, 1960-2000
… economy descended from the plantation system and Jim Crow, gravitated to education as a centerpiece of development strategy, and why so many are still disappointed in its outcomes. By looking at state-wide policymaking in North Carolina and policy effects in the state’s black belt counties, this …
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Into "the Dead Zone" : racial violence and white supremacist genocide in Jim Crow Virginia, 1902-1951
… Virginia experienced the fewest lynchings during Jim Crow segregation. Accordingly, after a spree of highly publicized lynchings during the late 1920s, Virginia Governor Harry F. Byrd and other state officials deemed lynchings a threat to the state’s economic development and reputation. …
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Whatever Force Necessary: The Politics of Police Brutality In the Post-Jim Crow South, 1968-1971
… young black males drove the politics of the post-Jim Crow urban South. The controversy surrounding law enforcement in Memphis during this period illustrates how police brutality helped mobilize black political power rather than stifle it.</p>
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… North Carolina. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. The descendant of two white grandparents, her bi-racialism formed her early awareness of colorism …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… North Carolina. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. The descendant of two white grandparents, her bi-racialism formed her early awareness of colorism …
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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
… victimization. Overall, respondents portray Jim Crow segregation as a calm and peaceful time and the civil rights era as chaotic and harmful to whites, at the same time as they acknowledge, to a limited extent, the unfairness of Jim Crow's blatant racial inequalities. In this work I propose …
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Two Trains Running: Capture and Escape in the Racialized Train Cars of the Jim Crow South, 1893-1930
… by these black men under the constraints of the Jim Crow South, we might come to a better understanding of the role of the railroad in American life, the role of segregation law in southern life, and the role of train experience in the expression of protest escaping from an African-American …
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Not Quite American, Not Quite European: Performing "Other" Claims to Exceptionality In Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
… when, particularly during Francoism and Jim Crow, they violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." My project explores the nature of this paradox not to simply compare two apparently similar cultures, but to show exactly how we construct difference around this self/other …
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The overground railroad of the Jim Crow era: A rhetorical analysis of the <i>Negro Motorist Green Books</i>
1 PDF file (viii, 133 pages)
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Jim Crow in the big house: The benching of Willis Ward and the rise of segregation in the north
… of the literature exploring the history of Jim Crow in America has been geographically situated upon the South, where Jim Crow ostensibly had its most profound and pernicious presence. As a consequence, studies on the existence of Jim Crow in regions such as the North have been limited and, …
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Lessons in Black and White: The Racial and Gender Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow *South, 1887--1939
My final two chapters explore ritualistic racial violence as the extreme of racial and gender socialization. The attendance and participation in the mass mob lynchings of African Americans took white children outside of the daily experiences of racism. For white male youths, the community …
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