American Nightmare: the History of Jim Crow.(Book Review)

Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2004 ;     549 words ...American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow. By Jerrold M. Packard. (New York: St...the reader about the terrible past of Jim Crow in the U.S. Painting with a very broad...the emergence, practice, and demise of Jim Crow. However, the book contributes little...

American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow

The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2004 ;     552 words ...American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow. By Jerrold M. Packard. (New York: St...the reader about the terrible past of Jim Crow in the U.S. Painting with a very broad...the emergence, practice, and demise of Jim Crow. However, the book contributes little...

COMMENTARY: There's self-defeating, and then there's Jim Crow

University Wire;  October 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ......that caveat in mind, I offer this statement: I hate Jim Crow. The Jim Crow familiar to most refers to the blatant racism of the...States South in the 20th century. I certainly hate that Jim Crow. In fact, that Jim Crow and the scar which his brand...

Right to ride: African American citizenship and protest in the era of...

African American Review;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Jim Crow was a traveling intruder, a black interloper in all-white spaces. Originally, Jim Crow was a folk character featured in the rhyming...played by the white performer Thomas Daddy Rice, Jim Crow was an uncouth, uncultured, humorously dangerous...

The original Jim Crow

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  May 16, 2004 ;     323 words ...The phrase "Jim Crow" began as a character in a song, but...Thorp, a cultural anthropologist at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris...in the early 19th century poked fun at Jim Crow, a slave master, and a law that said...

The Rise and Fall of 'Jim Crow'

Sacramento Observer;  September 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Blacks' Resolve During Period "I sit in the Jim Crow [railroad] car. But my mind is rejuvenated...supremacist laws and customs known as "Jim Crow." It was a brutal and oppressive era in...and a true spirit of community. The term Jim Crow was taken from a White performer named...

JIM CROW MAY HAVE REFERRED TO WHITE MINSTREL ENTERTAINER.(LEDGER)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  October 30, 1996 ;     560 words ...DURHAM< -- Jim Crow, now a descriptive term for legalized...century. That dance was called Jumping Jim Crow. Rice, as did other white entertainers...of blacks, eventually became known as Jim Crow. To document this time, graduate students...

Shirley Q. Liquor and the Long Beach Ten: For Those Who Don't Believe Jim...

The Broward Times;  April 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......some time that "Colorblindness is the new Jim Crow," and the clock is being turned back...won't either. For those who don't believe "Jim Crow" is back, it's time to take another look...circumstances have produced. That's actually how Jim Crow started in the 19th Century. A white ...

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated...

Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of oppression and submission that has defined Jim Crow (p. xxix). Remembering Jim Crow is drawn from the Behind the Veil project, a...lessons learned from [b]lack elders who survived Jim Crow (p. xv). What follows are thematic chapters of...

Remembering Jim Crow: American Radioworks captures the voices of those who...

Minnesota Monthly;  November 1, 2001 ;     349 words ......80-year era of segregation known as "Jim Crow" represents one of the most troubling...little about what it was like to endure Jim Crow. On Tuesday, November 13, MPR will broadcast Remembering Jim Crow, an hour-long special that captures voices...

'Blacker than you, brother man': minstrelsy's poisoned history bamboozles...

American Theatre;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...JUMP JIM CROW: LOST PLAYS, LYRICS AND STREET PROSE OF...blackface and created a stage character called Jim Crow. In the era of minstrelsy, Rice imitated...alliances in the 19th century, has, in Jump Jim Crow, researched Rice and unearthed 9 of his...

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated...

The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South...two-dimensional story of oppression and submission" that has defined Jim Crow (p. xxix). Remembering Jim Crow is drawn from the "Behind the Veil" project, a research endeavor...

Jim Crow was at home 'up South'

New Pittsburgh Courier;  January 31, 2007 ;     445 words ......One rarely discussed truth is that Jim Crow took up residence in the commonwealth...that resulted in the documentary, "Jim Crow Pennsylvania." For Chris Moore, a native of Little Rock, Ark., the Jim Crow project was all too familiar and, as...

Jim Crow online.

Education Technology News;  October 9, 2002 ;     115 words ...Jim Crow Online--A new Web site explains to students...segregated South, commonly referred to as the Jim Crow era. The site, which serves as a companion...the PBS documentary, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, is online at www.pbs.org/jimcrow. The...

A LANDMARK TELEVISION EVENT FOR PBS: THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW

The Broward Times;  September 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Premieres October 1, 2002 On PBS "I sit in the Jim Crow [railroad] car. But my mind is rejuvenated...supremacist laws and customs known as "Jim Crow." It was a brutal and oppressive era in...complexities that defined life during the Jim Crow era will be explored in a major ...