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Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A., Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A., 0817356711, 0-8173-5671-1, 978-0-8173-5671-2, 9780817356712, , , Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A., 0817385649, 0-8173-8564-9, 978-0-8173-8564-4, 9780817385644,
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Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A.
Stetson Kennedy
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E Book
2010.
232 pp.
978-0-8173-8564-4
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Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work of permanent value for scholars and of exceptional appeal for general readers. Stetson Kennedy is an award-winning author and human rights activist. Kennedy is also known as a pioneering folklorist, a labor activist, and environmentalist. He is the author of the books: Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, The Jim Crow Guide, The Klan Unmasked, and After Appomattox. “Jim Crow Guide is an excellent ‘guide’ to life in the Jim Crow South. Stetson Kennedy’s book amply captures this era, when terrorism of an entire class of U.S. citizens was the order of the day in the South. The author’s style of writing and unique presentation technique make this work easy reading for general readers and all students of American History from ninth grade and above.”—Marcia Ward, Librarian, Broward Community College “I have students read Kennedy’s book, Jim Crow Guide. The book is a mock guide dripping with bitter sarcasm; nevertheless, it is a historically sound account of life under Jim Crow segregation.” —David Pilgrim, Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University
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