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Title: Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad ISBN: 1-56584-778-4 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Remembering Jim Crow
Comment: REMEMBERING JIM CROW is a colletion of first hand accounts of life in the Jim Crow south. The stories are compelling and at the same time sad.
The stories create the atmosphere that one is sitting in one of the elderly story tellers living room listening to them.
This book is especially worthwhile for non-African-Amercians readers, because virtually all African-Americans that have roots in the south, know these stories all too well.
Rating: 5
Summary: A necessary book
Comment: This is an absolutely superb book, comprised of recollections of the Jim Crow years in the form of oral histories. It can be read through, or picked up at any part. There is an appropriate amount of historical introduction to each chapter.
This material needs to be read, and remembered. There was a long time in our history when, although there was no more slavery, African Americans were treated as a separate serf class, under constant pressures and reminders of their lower status. Whites used pervasive legal and social downward pressures to keep African Americans out of an equal education, and equal access to public facilities, much less the right to equal jobs and the right to vote -- and then claimed that African Americans' lack of achievement was a racial fault. If an African American violated one of the many social taboos, the sanctions ranged from a beating, to loss of job, and even being lynched.
While whites benefited from Jim Crow, the whites, also, were trapped in the system. They were also forced to abide by legal segregation, and were subject to social pressure if they were too liberal (being called "n* lover," "white n*," etc.).
What led to the mindset that the end of slavery should lead to continued legal and social oppression of African Americans? It was part of white American culture. Lincoln himself said that he was not "in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry.... [T]here must be the position of superior and inferior. I am as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." In 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes traded the end of southern post-war Reconstruction for the electoral votes he needed to win the presidency. Southern states then were free to institute the Jim Crow system.
I believe we are more subject to peer pressure than we would like to believe. Although reviewer McInerney asserts that "no civilized person" would benefit from Jim Crow, I feel many otherwise-good people were trapped and/or blinded by their own interests and surroundings. When allowed, and even encouraged, their evil side showed itself. On this topic, see John Griffin's _Black Like Me_, on the different faces that whites showed to other whites, and to African Americans.
While we are certain that we wouldn't go back to that system, we shouldn't be so sure that we, also, wouldn't be trapped by it if we were born into it. Consider that Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy (to a large extent) didn't take effective action to end segregation.
This book is excellent. Those dreadful and shameful times -- and the vestiges which still continue -- must not be forgotten.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reveals how blacks fought against the system
Comment: This slipcased book and 2-cd set supplements the written word with oral history, gathering the voices of men and women who were firsthand witnesses to segregation in the south. Stories by men and women from all walks of life reveal how blacks fought against the system, built communities, and ran businesses in a society which denied them basic rights. Remembering Jim Crow offers the reader a comprehensive, involving, highly recommended presentation.
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Title: Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. Miller ISBN: 1565844254 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: American Nightmare : The History of Jim Crow by Jerrold M. Packard ISBN: 0312261225 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: At the Hands of Persons Unknown : The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray ISBN: 0375754458 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy by James T. Patterson ISBN: 0195156323 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Brown V. Board of Education: A Brief History With Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Waldo E. Martin, St Martins Press ISBN: 0312111525 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
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