Informants for Remembering Jim Crow, the documentary, Web site and audio excerpts
Listen
Listen to the hour-long documentary which is airing on National Pubilc Radio and is included in the book and CD set Remembering Jim Crow.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
(Real Audio, How to listen)
Transcript of audio
LINKS
Original oral history interviews from the Behind the Veil Project at The Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, a series on PBS
Behind the Veil at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University
The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University
The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Sampling of Jim Crow Laws
Africans in America, a series on PBS
Photographs by Russell Lee
Photographs of American Life by the Farm Security Administration documentary project
BOOKS
There are scores of books that deal with the Jim Crow era, not to mention hundreds of other titles on African American history in general. This list is a small selection of books for further reading.
Bruce Adelson, Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South
Beth Tompkins Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America (1925-1945)
Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
David Cecelski and Timothy Tyson, Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom
Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972.
Eric Foner, Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy,
Eric Foner, Reconstruction : America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans
John Hope Franklin, Race & History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988
Raymond Gavins, The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970
Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners and the Great Migration
William H. Harris, The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920
Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
Michael Keith Honey, Black Workers Remember
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America
Tera Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men
Robert W. Ikard, No More Social Lynchings
Leon Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860
Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Spencie Love, One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew
Neil McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Missisippians in the Age of Jim Crow
Pauli Murray, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
David Oshinsky Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim
Crow Justice.
Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South
Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
Hortense Powdermaker, After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South.
Barbara Dianne Savage, Radio, War, and the Politics of Race (1938-1948)
Emmett J. Scott, Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War
Becky Thompson, A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism
Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-education of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson, The Negro as a Businessman
C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Richard Wright, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics From Civil War to Civil Rights, Ed. Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon.
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, Ed. James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack
