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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 - Hardcover
Synopsis
This is not a Print-on-Demand, reprint or facsimile book. It is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket price of 18s. net by Lawrence & Wishart, Ltd. of Chancery Lane, W.C. 2, London and printed by The Camelot Press, London. The 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. Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011) was an American author, folklorist, and human rights activist. One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century, he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. His actions led to the 1947 revocation by the state of Georgia of the Klan's national corporate charter.[. He is the author of the Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, The Jim Crow Guide, The Klan Unmasked, and After Appomattox.
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About the Author
Stetson Kennedy is an award-winning author and human rights activist. Kennedy is also known as a pioneering folklorist, a labor activist, and environmentalist. He is the author of the books: Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, The Jim Crow Guide, The Klan Unmasked, and After Appomattox.
Review
“Jim Crow Guide is an excellent ‘guide’ to life in the Jim Crow South. Stetson Kennedy’s book amply captures this era, when terrorism of an entire class of U.S. citizens was the order of the day in the South. The author’s style of writing and unique presentation technique make this work easy reading for general readers and all students of American History from ninth grade and above.”—Marcia Ward, Librarian, Broward Community College
“I have students read Kennedy’s book, Jim Crow Guide. The book is a mock guide dripping with bitter sarcasm; nevertheless, it is a historically sound account of life under Jim Crow segregation.” —David Pilgrim, Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University
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