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Sambo Sambo
Sambo THE ORIGINS OF SAMBO SAMBO AND THE MINSTREL SHOW POPULAR CULTURE AND BLACKFACE PERFORMANCES SAMBO IN ACADEME BIBLIOGRAPHY The derisive term Sambo refers to African American males in a manner that is commonly viewed as racist and unacceptable. The long career of the Sambo stereotype... Read more
Civil Rights Cases Civil Rights Cases
CIVIL RIGHTS CASES Jim Crow Since before the turn of the century in the South, black Americans had been relegated to the status of second-class citizens, denied by law and legal subterfuge fundamental civil rights such as the right to vote, the right to free assembly, the... Read more
James Welch (American writer) James Welch (American writer)
WELCH, James Nationality: American. Born: Browning, Montana, in 1940. Education: The University of Montana, Missoula, B.A.; Northern Montana College, Harve. Awards: National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1969; Los Angeles Times prize, for Fools Crow, 1987. Address: Roseacres Farm, Route... Read more
Jim Crow laws Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. ... Read more
Passing Passing
Passing BIBLIOGRAPHY Passing refers to a person changing his or her racial or ethnic identity. The term entered the common vocabulary under Jim Crow—the regime of racial segregation in the United States that emerged in the late nineteenth century and lasted into the 1960s. During this... Read more
Great Migration Great Migration
GREAT MIGRATION, 1910–1920 In 1914, 90 percent of African Americans lived in the states of the former Confederacy, where so-called Jim Crow statutes had legalized the separation of Americans by race. These statutes were validated by a series of Supreme Court rulings during the 1890s,... Read more
C Vann Woodward C Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward (Comer Vann Woodward), 1908-99, American historian, b. Vanndale, Ark. He graduated from Emory Univ. (1930), received his Ph.D. in history from the Univ. of North Carolina (1937), and taught at several schools, most notably Johns Hopkins (1946-61) and Yale (1961-77). An outstanding... Read more
crowfoot crowfoot
crowfoot name for plants with the leaf or some other part resembling the foot of a crow, particularly the buttercup .... Read more
Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Movement
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public... Read more
Disfranchisement Disfranchisement
DISFRANCHISEMENT The removal of the rights and privileges inherent in an association with a group; the taking away of the rights of a free citizen, especially the right to vote. Sometimes called disenfranchisement. The relinquishment of a person's right to membership in a corporation is... Read more

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W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics and Street Prose of the...
Magazine article from: African American Review ...showing that "Jumping Jim Crow," a popular black folkdance...tales of buzzards and crows, the trickster birds...evolved his own trickster Jim Crow to give white society...blackface could. Again, Jim Crow ...
'Blacker than you, brother man': minstrelsy's poisoned history bamboozles a...
Magazine article from: American Theatre JUMP JIM CROW: LOST PLAYS, LYRICS AND...created a stage character called Jim Crow. In the era of minstrelsy...19th century, has, in Jump Jim Crow, researched Rice and...Lhamon's contention that the original ...
THE ORIGINAL MR. P ROGER PARKS ENDURED THE HARSH RACIAL RULES OF JIM CROW...
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times Roger Parks grew up with six siblings in Pike County near Concord, Ga., on a cotton-country tenant farm owned by a white landlord. ``The owner of the land, he furnished a place for you to live, he furnished everything, and you did the work. And at the end of the year, when you gather your crop,
ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...origin and meaning of the term "Jim Crow"? J.L., Dorchester A. The...Word and Phrase Origins says the original Jim Crow was a white blackface comedian...song and dance routine, entitled "Jim Crow," whose ...
The Origins of the Black Minstrel Show
Magazine article from: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Today the term "Jim Crow" is commonly understood to refer to...repression. But, in fact, there was an original Jim Crow and he was a shrewd and rebellious...person to go on stage as the original Jim ...
Read this book -- please
Newspaper article from: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) ...about a book, "The New Jim Crow," by Michelle Alexander...oppressive and omnipresent as Jim Crow itself. This because...schoolhouse door. "The New Jim Crow" won several awards...In his battle against the ...
Leonard Pitts:
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune ...about a book, "The New Jim Crow," by Michelle Alexander...oppressive and omnipresent as Jim Crow itself. This because...schoolhouse door. "The New Jim Crow" won several awards...In his battle against the ...
"So-called black": Reassessing John Berryman's Blackface Minstrelsy
Magazine article from: The Arizona Quarterly ...Berryman's source Carl Wittke, remarking that "the original Jim Crow was not a white imitation, but a crippled black man...varying accounts and historical mythologizing of the Jim Crow story, however, it is impossible to speak with any...
JIM CROW SIGNS AS SYMBOLS OF SUBJUGATION, TROPHIES OF TRIUMPH.
Newspaper article from: States News Service ...segregation known as Jim Crow. After the passage of...The Visual Politics of Jim Crow (UC Press, 2010...launched her research on Jim Crow signage more than...the reproduction of Jim Crow ...
COMMENTARY: There's self-defeating, and then there's Jim Crow
News Wire article from: University Wire ...tonight and decide that Jim Crow is their favorite rap...shouldn't be learning that Jim Crow is about candy...to the term, making "Jim Crow" part of the public...significance. Slowly, if "Jim ...

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