I love learning about the civil war and civil rights movements in America. However, I realized I didn’t actually know very much about the Jim Crow era. Can anyone recommend me a nonfiction book specifically set in that time period?
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hilton – about a segregated asylum in Maryland and how segregation affected healthcare for Black patients
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*American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow* by Jerrold M. Packard is excellent.
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I must recommend the phenomenal “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander – most social scientists will say that Jim Crow never went away, and that southern black Americans are still living under this tyrannical system, although the system looks different now than it did 100 years ago. I read this book in college more than ten years ago, and I still remember haunting statistics, such as that 1 in 3 black men will serve time in prison during their lives.
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Isabel Wilkerson: the Warmth of Other Suns is about the migration of black folk away from Jim Crow to the Northern states between 1914 and the 1970s. It’s a very good read.
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hilton – about a segregated asylum in Maryland and how segregation affected healthcare for Black patients
*American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow* by Jerrold M. Packard is excellent.
I must recommend the phenomenal “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander – most social scientists will say that Jim Crow never went away, and that southern black Americans are still living under this tyrannical system, although the system looks different now than it did 100 years ago. I read this book in college more than ten years ago, and I still remember haunting statistics, such as that 1 in 3 black men will serve time in prison during their lives.
Isabel Wilkerson: the Warmth of Other Suns is about the migration of black folk away from Jim Crow to the Northern states between 1914 and the 1970s. It’s a very good read.
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.