Posts Tagged ‘Jim Crow’
Kirkus Review of Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid
COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: AMERICAN APARTHEID African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Eugene DeFriest Betit Xlibris (502 pp.); February 14, 2019 BOOK REVIEW An accomplished American historian explores the roots and effects of the mistreatment of African Americans in the United States. Much of the history in Bétit’s (War’s Cost, 2016, etc.) carefully researched and…
Read MoreCollective Amnesia: American Apartheid African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Contents
Dedicated to African Americans, Freedmen and slave Who stood by the Union in her time of trial And to their descendants Who kept the faith Despite segregation and hate Chapter One Racism and White Supremacy: America’s “Original Sin?” (25 pages) Chapter Two Slavery: America’s “Peculiar Institution” …
Read MoreWho and What was Jim Crow?
The short answer is that no one knows how the name originated. What is known is that in 1832 an entertainer born in Manhattan, Thomas Dartmouth “Big Daddy” Rice, wrote a song and dance he called “Jim Crow.” Rice applied blackface makeup and imitated slave dialect for his performances, birthing a type of minstrel show…
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Redemption employed terror, fraud and intimidation as white minority Southern Democrats achieved political control once Union forces were withdrawn from the South after the watershed election of 1876. These techniques continued to be used for some degree for a hundred years, up to the end of the modern Civil Rights era
Read MoreWhite Supremacy
White supremacy used to “justify” racial superiority by American bigots and Nazi leaders
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