Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century

by Robert Cohen

Since the onset of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, America has grappled with its racial history, leading to the removal of statues and other markers commemorating pro-slavery sympathizers and segregationists from public spaces. Some of these white supremacist statues had stood on or near college and university campuses since the Jim Crow era, symbolizing the reluctance of American higher education to confront...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469681404
• ISBN13: 9781469681405
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages