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

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 co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pilgrim, David, 1959- (Author)
Other Authors:	Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : 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.

Table of 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.