6. The Culture of Jim Crow
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. How was white supremacy maintained in the "Jim Crow" South?
2. How and with what success did African Americans resist Jim Crow during the 1920s and 30s?

Required Reading
William H. Chafe, "The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun," Journal of American History 86 (2000) pp. 1531-1551)
Robin D. G. Kelley, "'We Are Not What We Seem': Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South," Journal of American History, 1993 (JSTOR)

Further Reading
Pete Daniel, Standing at the Crossroads, (1986) chapters 5-7.
Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000 (2001), chapters 6-9.

Primary Documents
Narrative Testimony at the History of Jim Crow Web Site
Segregation in the Clinton, Louisiana Courthouse, 1963
A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?," 1942