The World of Jim Crow America

Preface,
Introduction,
Chronology,
VOLUME 1
Arts,
Introduction,
Actors,
Architecture,
Black Journalists,
Black Press,
Blues,
Children's Literature,
Classical Music, Black Composers of,
Folklore and Folktales,
Jazz,
Jim Crow Signs,
Jook Joints,
Literature,
Live Theater,
Moviegoing,
Quilting,
Race Films,
Race Records,
Uncle Remus Tales,
Work Songs,
Economics and Work,
Introduction,
Banking,
Black Businesses,
Building Trades,
Coal Miners,
Convict Labor,
Defense Industries,
Domestic Service,
Farm Ownership,
Insurance Agents,
Labor Unions,
Longshoremen,
Nurses,
Physicians,
Postal Service Workers,
Public-Sector Employment,
Railroad Workers,
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming,
Sleeping-Car Porters,
Steel Workers,
Teachers,
Tobacco Farming,
Undertakers,
Family and Gender,
Introduction,
Benevolent Societies and Fraternal Orders,
Birth Control,
Childbirth,
Childhood,
Divorce,
Extended (Intergenerational) Families,
Fertility,
Household Credit,
Household Economy,
Interracial Intimacies,
Manhood,
Marriage,
Motherhood,
Naming Practices,
Sexuality,
Womanhood,
Women's Clubs,
Fashion and Appearance,
Introduction,
African American Vernacular English,
Barbers and Barbershops,
Beauty Salons,
Beauty Standards,
Black Elites,
Dandyism,
Everyday Clothing,
Men's Fashion,
Passing,
Race Uplift,
Racial Stereotypes, Female,
Racial Stereotypes, Male,
Respectability,
Women's Fashion,
Food and Drink,
Introduction,
Aunt Jemima,
Barbecue,
Bars and Bartenders,
Canning,
Cookbooks,
Eating and Dining,
Gardening,
Grocery Stores,
Hunger and Malnutrition,
Lunch Counters,
Moonshining,
Restaurants and Cafés,
Traditional Core Diet,
Truck Farming,
Housing and Community,
Introduction,
Black Middle Class,
Black Towns,
Community and Neighborhood Life, Rural,
Community and Neighborhood Life, Urban,
Consumer Behavior,
Elementary and Secondary Education,
Fraternities and Sororities,
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs),
Hotel Accommodations,
Housing, Rural,
Housing, Suburban,
Industrial Education,
Interstate Migration,
Literacy,
Orphanages,
Public Restrooms,
Rural-to-Urban Migration,
Settlement Houses,
Sundown Towns,
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA),
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA),
VOLUME 2
Politics and Warfare,
Introduction,
Accommodationism,
Black Political Officeholders,
Black Populism,
Buffalo Soldiers,
The Civil Rights Cases of 1883,
Consumer Boycotts,
Disfranchisement,
Incarceration,
Interracial Cooperation,
Law Enforcement/Policing,
Lynching,
Military Service, Spanish-American War,
Military Service, World War I,
Military Service, World War II,
Military Veterans,
Militia,
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956),
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
National Urban League,
The New Negro,
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),
Political Spectacle,
Streetcar Boycotts,
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA),
Recreation and Social Customs,
Introduction,
Amusement Parks,
Baseball,
Basketball,
Beaches,
Bowling,
Boxing,
Christmas,
Circuses,
Commercial Downtown Retail Establishments,
Emancipation Day,
Excursions and Vacations,
Football,
Golf,
Holidays,
Independence Day,
State Parks,
Religion and Beliefs,
Introduction,
Baptist Church,
Black Pentecostalism,
Cemeteries,
Church Attendance,
Conjure,
Funerals,
Gospel Music,
Hoodoo,
Prayer,
Preachers and Ministers,
Revivals and Camp Meetings,
Spirituals,
Sunday Schools,
Testifying,
Wedding Ceremonies,
Worship Styles,
Science and Technology,
Introduction,
Agricultural Extension Service,
Automobile Service Stations and Garages,
Compulsory Sterilization of African American Women,
County Fairs,
4-H Clubs,
Health and Well-Being,
Hospitals,
Interstate Bus Travel,
Jim Crow Rail Cars,
Jitney Buses,
Medical Care,
Mortality,
Municipal Bus Lines,
Public Health Policy,
Radio,
Railroad and Bus Stations,
Television,
Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972),
Primary Documents,
What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking (Abby Fisher, 1881),
A Black Nurse in the Jim Crow South (Anna de Costa Banks, 1899),
Racial Etiquette in the South (1904),
Trouble on the Streetcars (1904, 1916, 1924),
"But What Am I Getting for My Labor?" (Nate Shaw, 1907),
The Outlook for Nashville Baseball (1909),
"Negro Dolls for Negro Children" (1909),
"Black Men and Women of the Stage" (Aida Overton Walker, 1912),
Basketball among Colored Players (Edwin B. Henderson, 1912),
Black Businesses of Tulsa (1914),
Pioneer Caterer of the West (Kansas City Sun, 1914),
Black Communities of Oklahoma (Theo Baughman, 1915),
Impressions of the Convict Camps of Florida (Marc N. Goodnow, 1915),
How the Colored Boys Were Trained at Home (1918),
Hunting in the Southern Forest (Bill Willie Gilder),
Emancipation Day Celebration in Florida (Harriet Jefferson, 1920s),
"The Heritage" (Blanche Lynn Patterson, 1920),
The Dangers of Jim Crow Trains (1924, 1942),
Does Not Like the Name "Negro" (An Afro-American, 1928),
Segregation on Main Street (Kansas City and Houston, 1930),
The Negro Social Worker Evaluates Birth Control (Constance Fisher, 1932),
"Sweet Girl Grads" Want Husbands, Children, Homes (Floyd G. Snelson, 1932),
Everyday Clothing in the Black Belt (Arthur Raper, 1936),
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow (Richard Wright, 1940),
Sunday Morning in the Black Belt (Charles Johnson, 1941),
Tuesday Night Boxing (Charles Johnson, 1941),
Black Midwives (Willie Ann Lucas, 1945-1972),
Burial Rights for Black War Veterans (James L. Hicks, 1947),
"Justifiable Homicide in Self-Defense" (Ray Sprigle, 1947),
Where Are You Going to Stop? (James A. Jackson, 1948),
Driving to the Beach in the Deep South (Henry Hooten, 1949),
Musically Speaking (Noah Ryder and Georgia Ryder, 1950),
Memories of a Retired Pullman Porter (Robert E. Turner, 1954),
Saturday Night at Zeke's Colored Café (Hylan Lewis, 1954),
A Black Teacher Remembers (Bernadine Morris, 1997),
Selected Bibliography,
Editor and Contributors,
Index,