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Living in the Jim Crow South

Between Reconstruction in the 1870s and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, African American life in the American South was confined by an unrelenting system of racial control known as Jim Crow. The building blocks of this system began in the 1880s and 1890s, as states passed segregation laws separating the races, created devices to keep black men from voting, and constructed an extralegal system of racial etiquette that defined how the races interacted in public spaces. This system was enforced by racial violence, including lynching. It reached its mature phase by the 1930s.

Date:
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Auditorium
Branch:
Bennett Civic Center Library
Intended Audience:
Adults One City One Book

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