american radio works remembering jim crow

Louisiana: The board of trustees shall maintain a separate building, on separate grounds, for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race. Remembering Jim Crow is produced in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and its Behind the Veil oral history project. AUDIO

To most whites in Iberia Parish, Jim Crow operated beyond their control. Wyoming: All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are, and shall be, illegal and void. Radio Fights Jim Crow Mississippi: Separate schools shall be maintained for the children of the white and colored races. Whites Remember Jim Crow Southern whites who lived in the segregation era sometimes offer startlingly different recollections to those of African Americans, much the way a black and white film negative looks directly opposite the final print. Keeping the PastBlack families used oral storytelling and photography to pass along their memories of slavery and Reconstruction. Communities "Behind the Veil"African Americans built vital social institutions to fight segregation and uplift the race. Virtually all say their town's Jim Crow history is irrelevant to contemporary race relations.

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Mississippi: There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared. ResistanceMany African Americans found subtle ways to combat the humiliation and economic hardship imposed by Jim Crow. ResistanceMany African Americans found subtle ways to combat the humiliation and economic hardship imposed by Jim Crow. Mississippi: Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.

Louisiana: Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Mining companies). Georgia: No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls.

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Whites Remember Jim Crow

Whites Remember Jim Crow. SERVICES Oklahoma: The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building. Blacks in the Jim Crow South faced lynchings, insults and thievery at the hands of whites.

Alabama: Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. Florida: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room, shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 12 months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Informants, documentary audio and transcript, links, and books.

Georgia: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race. Maryland: All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent, to the third generation, inclusiveare forever prohibited, and shall be void. Jim Crow Laws Virginia: Any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show or place of public entertainment which is attended by both white and colored persons shall separate the white race and the colored race. This documentary is also available in a book and CD set titled "Remembering Jim Crow" published by the New Press. Resources Oklahoma: The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building.

Resources In the southwestern Louisiana town of New Iberia, older whites say race relations were more peaceful during Jim Crow than they are now.

In the southwestern Louisiana town of New Iberia, older whites tend to remember segregation as a benign social system. Part II

Informants, documentary audio and transcript, links, and books. For more Jim Crow laws, visit the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site. They say race relations were more peaceful during Jim Crow than they are now because blacks and whites understood their place within the social order. In this documentary, Americans-- black and white--remember life in the Jim Crow times. Guitar blues. Mississippi: Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school. Mississippi: The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and void. A sampling of repressive Jim Crow laws. Resistance | Mississippi: There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared.

Alabama: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama: Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. Texas: Negroes are to be served through a separate branch or branches of the county free library, which shall be administered by a custodian of the negro race under the supervision of the county librarian. Maryland: All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent, to the third generation, inclusiveare forever prohibited, and shall be void.

Mississippi: The prison warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the negro convicts.

A sampling of repressive Jim Crow laws.

This documentary and more than a hundred others are available on demand.

Whites Remember Jim Crow Maryland: All railroad companies are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers. Georgia: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race. Informants, documentary audio and transcript, links, and books. Kentucky: The children of white and colored races committed to reform schools shall be kept entirely separate from each other. Download this documentary.

Alabama: It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards.

ResistanceMany African Americans found subtle ways to combat the humiliation and economic hardship imposed by Jim Crow.

In the southwestern Louisiana town of New Iberia, older whites say race relations were more peaceful during Jim Crow than they are now. Here is a sampling of those laws, grouped by topic. Jim Crow laws robbed African Americans of basic rights. ALSO HEARD ON Here is a sampling of those laws, grouped by topic. In the southwestern Louisiana town of New Iberia, older whites say race relations were more peaceful during Jim Crow than they are now. The story of African Americans using the popular new medium to combat racism during World War Two. Jim Crow Laws Georgia: All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or under the same license. Remembering Jim Crow is produced in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and its Behind the Veil oral history project. Memories of Jim Crow naturally depend on who's doing the remembering. Alabama: All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races.