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.
"The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North explores the topics of racism and segregation"--
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: | vi, 350 pages ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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.