Jim Crow South

Catalog description

During the era of Jim Crow-a period that spanned the years from the 1890s to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s-state laws, municipal ordinances and social customs racially segregated public and private life across the American South. Jim Crow, as both legal framework and social practice, shaped the everyday lives of three generations of Southerners, both black and white. This class examines the complexities of segregation-its legal boundaries, its social and cultural peculiarities, and its violent enforcement. It especially focuses on the political actions that challenged and eventually dismantled it.