IMAGES OF JIM CROW

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IMAGES OF JIM CROW
Don Spooner and Chris Harper
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The "Jim Crow" figure was a fixture of the
minstrel shows that toured the South a white man
made up as a black man sang and mimicked
stereotypical behavior in the name of comedy.
http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/gall
ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Another in a series of racist posters attacking
Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage,
issued during the 1866 PA gubernatorial
race. http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcr
ow/gallery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Sheet music cover illustration with caricatures
of ragged African-American musicians and dancers.
1847
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ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Sheet music cover illustration with caricatures
of ragged African-American musicians and dancers.
1847
http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/gall
ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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The most recognizable trademark in the world by
1900, Bull Durham tobacco ads and trading cards
typically depicted caricatures of foolish looking
or silly acting blacks to draw attention to its
product. Each ad has a green bull somewhere in
the image.
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ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Two silly looking black hunters have all the
equipment for the hunt, but no match with which
to light their cigarettes. The hunters are
exaggerated images of blacks trying to imitate
white people at sport. Notice the trademark green
bull in the background. The Bull Durham bull
together with the stereotypical images of blacks
were a standard part of America's popular culture
at the turn of the century.
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ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Nicodemus, Kansas, 1870s Middle class settler's
homestead. http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/
jimcrow/gallery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Philadelphia, 1889 Removing an African American
from a Philadelphia Railway car--after the
implementation of Jim Crow, the integration
imposed by Reconstruction was stripped away by
new laws.
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ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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The costumes and rituals of the new Ku Klux Klan
became symbols of terror in America during the
first three decades of the twentieth century.
(1915). The new Klan spread all over the nation
with a membership numbering over three million in
the 1920s.
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ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 1939 "Colored"
water fountains were fixtures throughout the
South during the Jim Crow era.
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ery.cgi?collectioncrow
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Washington DC, Ku Klux Klan Parade 1928
http//www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembe
ring/bitter.html
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Lynching of Rubin Stacy
for allegedly attacking a white woman.
1935 http//www.americanradioworks.org/features/re
membering/bitter.html
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Child on Trepagnier plantation near Norco,
Louisana
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ring/bitter.html
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Waco, Texas 1939 http//www.americanradioworks.org
/features/remembering/bitter.html
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Section Hand, Alma Plantation, False River,
Louisiana. 1934
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ring/bitter.html
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Tenant farmers http//www.americanradioworks.org/f
eatures/remembering/bitter.html
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Memphis, Tennesee 1943
http//www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembe
ring/bitter.html
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Durham, North Carolina 1940
http//www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembe
ring/bitter.html
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Detroit 1944 Pallbearers with casket walking in
front of sign reading "here lies Jim Crow" during
the NAACP Detroit branch "Parade for
Victory." http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/ji
mcrow/gallery.cgi?collectioncrow