Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

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When three successful, black shop owners were lynched in Memphis, Wells-Barnett openly attacked the ideal of White Womanhood that was used as an umbrella to cover all forms of brutalities against the black community. In retaliation, her newspaper office was burned out; in turn, Wells-Burnett responded by styling herself as the "Exiled," an identity that allowed her mobility and extended the field of her social activism see Patricia A. Wells-Barnett and American Reform If Wells-Barnett functioned as an activist in the public sphere, constantly questioning the Jim Crow legislations of her time she had her Rosa Park moment too, and sued the public transportation company that forcibly made her move , the speakers in Remembering Jim Crow bear witness to the multiple ways in which they resisted, responded, survived, and slid around the dehumanizing edicts of the segregationist policies of their time.

An ambitious, marvelously imaginative, massively coordinated and executed enterprise, the Behind the Veil Project took more than two decades to collect, edit, organize and present the more than 1, interviews collected and now [End Page ] stored at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. As the editors note in the Introduction, the need to allow African American housewives, sharecroppers, church organizers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, miners, and civil rights movement activists to speak was to showcase "the extraordinary resilience of black citizens, who, individually and collectively, found ways to endure, fight back, and occasionally define their own destinies" xxx.

Interestingly, the editors make it a point to claim that these recollections of those who lived in the midst of white terror is not to merely document the various instances of white on black violence. In the latter, even when there were indications within the given testimonies of how men and women coped against systematic violence, of how certain individuals questioned the brutality of public officials on behalf of others, and of how besieged communities survived under terrible conditions, the scope and focus of the book does not allow for the framing of these aspects to be highlighted.

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