Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice

by David Pilgrim

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 covenants, literacy tests, poll taxes, lynchings, and other oppressive features of the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. Even those who have some familiarity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629631140
• ISBN13: 9781629631141
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.9"