Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow"Remarkable for its relentless truth-telling, and the depth and thoroughness of its investigation, for the freshness of its sources, and for the shock power of its findings. Even a reader who is not unfamiliar with the sources and literature of the subject can be jolted by its impact."--C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Dark Journey is a superb piece of scholarship, a book that all students of southern and African-American history will find valuable and informative."--David J. Garrow, Georgia Historical Quarterly |
Contents
Jim Crow and the Limits of Freedom 18901940 | 3 |
The Logical Extreme | 6 |
Blood Will Tell | 14 |
The Etiquette of Race | 23 |
The Instrument in Reserve | 28 |
Separate and Unequal | 33 |
The Politics of the Disfranchised | 35 |
We Came Here to Exclude the Negro | 38 |
Epitaph for the Group Economy | 190 |
Under White Law | 195 |
Jim Crows Courts | 197 |
Negro Law | 201 |
The Mob in the Courtroom | 206 |
Between Caste and Law | 217 |
Judge Lynchs Court | 224 |
First on the Roll | 228 |
My People Cannot Vote Down Here | 48 |
Blacks and Tans | 57 |
Expecting Little Getting Less | 71 |
Education The Mere Faint Gesture | 72 |
Professor Hopkinss Schools | 83 |
Educate a Nigguh | 89 |
Higher Education in the Emergency Period | 98 |
Working and Striving | 109 |
Farmers without Land | 111 |
The New Servitude | 123 |
Outdoing Ol Mostah | 134 |
Returning Us to Slavery | 140 |
Postscript to the Cotton Patch | 150 |
Black LaborBlack Capital | 154 |
Nigger Work | 155 |
The Artisans | 164 |
The Professionals | 166 |
The Entrepreneurs | 177 |
The Mound Bayou Proposition | 186 |
Negro Barbeques | 233 |
Popular Justice | 238 |
Unknown Causes | 245 |
Going Underground | 251 |
A Resistant Spirit | 255 |
Northboun Mississippis Black Diaspora | 257 |
Many Thousand Go | 262 |
The Distant Magnet | 267 |
A Curse and a Blessing | 272 |
No Threat Intended | 275 |
The Gathering Challenge | 282 |
Feasible Limits | 285 |
Stage One | 288 |
Stage Two | 297 |
Stage Three | 302 |
The Impending Revolution | 317 |
Notes | 319 |
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