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The strange careers of the Jim Crow North : segregation and struggle outside of the South
Title
The strange careers of the Jim Crow North : segregation and struggle outside of the South / edited by Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis, with Komozi Woodard.
ISBN
9781479820337
1479820334
9781479801312
1479801313
Publication
New York : New York University Press, 2019
Physical Description
vi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North explores the topics of racism and segregation"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Histories of racism and resistance, seen and unseen: how and why to think about the Jim Crow North / Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis
A murder in Central Park: racial violence and the crime wave in New York during the 1930s and 1940s / Shannon King
"In the 'fabled land of make-believe'": Charlotta Bass and Jim Crow Los Angeles / John S. Portlock
Black women as activist intellectuals: Ella Baker and Mae Mallory combat Northern Jim Crow in New York City's public schools during the 1950s / Kristopher Bryan Burrell
Brown girl, red lines, and brownstones: Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones, and the Jim Crow North / Balthazar Ishmael Beckett
"Let those negroes have their whiskey": white backtalk and Jim Crow discourse in the era of black rebellion / Laura Warren Hill
The fight for fair housing on Chicago's North Shore / Mary Barr
"You are running a de facto segregated university": racial segregation and City University of New York, 1961-1968 / Tahir H. Butt
A forgotten community, a forgotten history: San Francisco's 1966 urban uprising / Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin
"The shame of our whole judicial system": George Crockett, the "New Bethel incident" and the nation's Jim Crow judiciary / Say Burgin
"We've been behind the scenes": Project Equality and fair employment in 1970s Milwaukee / Crystal Marie Moten
The media and H. Rap Brown: friend or foe of Jim Crow? / Peter B. Levy
Stalled in the movement: the Black Panther Party in Night catches us / Ayesha K. Hardison.
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