Understanding Jim Crow : using racist memorabilia to teach tolerance and promote social justice / David Pilgrim.

"For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow segregation in the United States. Most young Americans have little or no knowledge about restrictive c...

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Main Author: Pilgrim, David, 1959- (Author)
Other Authors: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African Americans > Segregation > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Racism > United States.
African Americans > Segregation > Collectibles.
Racism > Collectibles > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:xi, 187 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter one. The garbage man : why I collect racist objects
  • Chapter two. An unorthodox teaching tool
  • Chapter three. Understanding Jim Crow
  • Chapter four. A caricatured family
  • Chapter five. Flawed women
  • Chapter six. Dangerous men
  • Chapter seven. A night in Howell
  • About the museum
  • About the author
  • Notes
  • Index.