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This one-volume reference work examines a broad range of topics
related to the establishment, maintenance, and eventual dismantling
of the discriminatory system known as Jim Crow. Many Americans
imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights
has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the
present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans
had their civil rights and basic human rights systematically denied
in much of the nation. Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the
American Mosaic sheds new light on how the systematic denigration
of African Americans after slavery-known collectively as "Jim
Crow"-was established, maintained, and eventually dismantled.
Written in a manner appropriate for high school and junior high
students as well as undergraduate readers, this book examines the
period of Jim Crow after slavery that is often overlooked in
American history curricula. An introductory essay frames the work
and explains the significance and scope of this regrettable period
in American history. Written by experts in their fields, the
accessible entries will enable readers to understand the long hard
road before the inception of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th
century while also gaining a better understanding of the
experiences of minorities in the United States-African Americans,
in particular. Provides a one-stop source of information for
students researching the period of American history dominated by
the discriminatory system of Jim Crow laws Puts phenomena such as
"Sundown towns" within a larger framework of official
discrimination Documents the methods used to create, maintain, and
dismantle Jim Crow
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