Histories of racism and resistance, seen and unseen: how and why to think about the Jim Crow North / Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis -- A murder in Central Park: racial violence and the crime wave in New York during the 1930s and 1940s / Shannon King -- "In the 'fabled land of make-believe'": Charlotta Bass and Jim Crow Los Angeles / John S. Portlock -- Black women as activist intellectuals: Ella Baker and Mae Mallory combat Northern Jim Crow in New York City's public schools during the 1950s / Kristopher Bryan Burrell -- Brown girl, red lines, and brownstones: Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones, and the Jim Crow North / Balthazar Ishmael Beckett -- "Let those negroes have their whiskey": white backtalk and Jim Crow discourse in the era of black rebellion / Laura Warren Hill -- The fight for fair housing on Chicago's North Shore / Mary Barr -- "You are running a de facto segregated university": racial segregation and City University of New York, 1961-1968 / Tahir H. Butt -- A forgotten community, a forgotten history: San Francisco's 1966 urban uprising / Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin -- "The shame of our whole judicial system": George Crockett, the "New Bethel incident" and the nation's Jim Crow judiciary / Say Burgin -- "We've been behind the scenes": Project Equality and fair employment in 1970s Milwaukee / Crystal Marie Moten -- The media and H. Rap Brown: friend or foe of Jim Crow? / Peter B. Levy -- Stalled in the movement: the Black Panther Party in Night catches us / Ayesha K. Hardison.
Summary:
"The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North explores the topics of racism and segregation"-- Provided by publisher.
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