A White Resident of Louisiana Remembers Jim Crow
Memories of Jim Crow and segregation in the South vary greatly depending on who's doing the remembering. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the recollections of Southern whites who lived during the segregation era often stand in stark contrast to those of [...]
A White Southerner Remembers Segregation
Memories of Jim Crow and segregation in the South vary greatly depending on who's doing the remembering. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the recollections of Southern whites who lived during the segregation era often stand in stark contrast to the memories [...]
African-American Women Recall Subtle Methods of Resisting Segregation
During the Jim Crow era, when overt resistance could lead to a lynching, many black people found subtle ways to combat the humiliation that they were daily subjected to. For Georgia Sutton, methods of coping included maintaining a cheerful facade [...]
An African American Remembers Growing Up in Segregated Louisiana
The Jim Crow system emerged during Reconstruction, when Southern legislatures controlled by whites adopted laws designed to deprive African-Americans of their basic rights and keep the races separated in nearly every sphere of social life. In this [...]