... Mississippi Florida Railroads Segregation From swamps morbific it doth now arise, And with an awful golden touch of death Can close in pain the light of laughing eyes, And stain and spoil with its consuming breath. Beware, ye cities, and all folk thereof; Beware its advent, ye that hate or love … Beware...

...This chapter outlines the dominant Lost Cause and New South narratives that arose after 1880, analyzes the agrarian social and political movements that challenged that dominance, and considers how Victorianism took root in the South. It examines the rise of racial segregation and the spread...

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...This chapter sketches a brief history of Seattle’s neighborhood and economic development primarily during the twentieth century. The chapter investigates how the development of small, segregated, but adjacent neighborhoods of color helped foster the foundations of multiracial coalition building...

... segregated buses; testimonies of bus passengers in Montgomery Circuit Court about their past mistreatment by white bus drivers and how they had challenged it in different ways; and the May 11, 1956 testimony of Claudette Colvin in a Montgomery federal court hearing about her refusal to give up her seat...

...Part V focuses on the outrages and damages wreaked upon Black Americans in the century and a half since the end of the Civil War. This chapter focuses on the abuses of the Jim Crow era, the period of legal segregation in American. It pivots on the sequence of white massacres that resulted...

...The conclusion grounds a larger discussion of the streets within recent events, such as the 2020 summer uprisings in response to George Floyd’s murder. The conclusion frames these current events as a direct product of the history of housing segregation and the way the streets define Black life...

...Marie Bottineau Baldwin saw the segregation of the federal civil service under the Wilson administration first-hand from her position in the Interior Department where she had been working for almost a decade. A large number of Native people were not U.S. citizens. In this increasingly rigid racial...

...Movies provided a diversion from the Great Depression and World War II in Columbus, and Pruitt photographed expressions of that. There were four principal theaters in the 1930s and 1940s: the Princess, Varsity, Dixie, and Joy. In an era of racial segregation, each included separate seating...

...From the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, Catfish Alley was a strip of flourishing Black businesses, a product of racial segregation: restaurants, pool halls, the town’s first Black-run drugstore, barbershops, honky-tonks, a birthing center, and Black doctors’ offices...

..., and segregation that plagued black lives elsewhere in the United States. Four decades of decent employment in federal offices had made Washington a city of opportunity and relative freedom for black men and women, a place where respectability and status could be earned by work in the nation's service...

... after the mid-1950s as black Americans challenged segregation by repeatedly demanding admission to pools reserved only for whites and by seeking remedies in the courts. The book explains how the social reconstruction of municipal pools profoundly changed social values and patterns of social interaction...

...This chapter examines the legal battle waged by African Americans to end racial discrimination and segregation in swimming pools in the northern United States. It considers how court rulings by state and federal judges forced many cities to open their pools to black swimmers, as well...

..., segregation in the nation’s capital collapsed, half a decade or more before similar changes happened elsewhere in the South. But segregation in the city had not died gradually of itself – it was killed by the concerted efforts of an interracial group of activists, parents, lawyers, writers, federal workers...

...This chapter explores intensifying segregation in the postwar era and argues that segregation was an important component of the city’s growth model. Even in a relatively liberal city like Austin, racial relations took a backseat to economic and demographic growth. City leaders used federally...

... of Black firefighters sparked racial backlash from the department’s overwhelming white majority, which attempted to formally institutionalize racism and racial segregation within the department. To combat this, New York’s Black firefighters formed the nation’s first Black firefighters’ organization...

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... the hardening boundaries of the nation’s racial ghettos as they fought desperately to hold onto their homes. Aided by the NAACP and local civil rights attorneys, they attacked the legal legitimacy of racial restrictive covenants, one of the most pervasive instruments of residential segregation in the 1940s...

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... the racism, segregation, and Lost Cause romanticism of this era. The chapter concludes by showing the means by which descendant Anna Knight and the Seventh Day Adventist Church became important cultural and education lifelines for the mixed-race Knight community. Cappleman Josie Frazee Confederacy Ku Klux...