Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A. : the laws, customs and etiquette governing the conduct of nonwhites and other minorities as second-class citizens

Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A. : the laws, customs and etiquette governing the conduct of nonwhites and other minorities as second-class citizens / by Stetson Kennedy.

"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...

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Main Author: Kennedy, Stetson (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Minorities > United States > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Segregation.
Race discrimination > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African Americans > Segregation
African Americans > Social conditions
Minorities > Social conditions
Race discrimination
Race relations
United States > Race relations.
United States
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Summary:"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"--Publisher's description.
Item Description:Originally published: Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A : the laws, customs, and etiquette governing the conduct of nonwhites and other minorities as second-class citizens / by Stetson Kennedy. London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1959.
Also published as: Jim Crow guide : the way it was / Stetson Kennedy. ©1990.
Physical Description:1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:9780817385644
0817385649
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from electronic title page (Project MUSE, viewed February 16, 2018).

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