The Voices Sing at Grand Opening of the New Jim Crow Museum-Ferris State University
Students Ashley Williams and Byron Williams sing at the grand opening ceremony for the new Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich.
The Nations Biggest Collection Of Racist Objects Are All In A Michigan College Basement (HBO)
David Pilgrim, a Black sociologist, runs the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia out of the small, white, Trump-voting town of Big Rapids, MI. With the help of private donors like Chuck and Ward, an elderly gay couple, Pilgrim believes that sharing his expansive collection can change the way racism is perceived in the United States.
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The Jim Crow Museum: History, Purpose, Vision
This introduction to the new Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich. highlights the history of the facility, its purpose and the vision for the museum's future.
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WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS OFFENSIVE IMAGES. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opening in Michi
HEADLINE: Jim Crow Museum aims to teach tolerance
CAPTION: WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS OFFENSIVE IMAGES. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opening in Michigan this month will have thousands of racist objects on display, not to shock, but to teach tolerance. (April 19)
[Location: BIG RAPIDS, Mich.]
[Date: March 14, 2012]
[Source: AP, Mike Householder]
[VO: Founder David Pilgrim talking to a tour group at the Jim Crow Museum]
[NATSOT: Pilgrim speaking to the tour group]
[VOICE-OVER]
OFFENSIVE. DIFFICULT TO LOOK AT. HORRIBLE. THESE ARE SOME OF THE WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE THE OBJECTS ON DISPLAY AT THE JIM CROW MUSEUM OF RACIST MEMORABILIA IN MICHIGAN
[VO: Objects on display at the museum]
[SOT/Pilgrim]
(Most of the objects in the Jim Crow Museum are negative. They are anti-black caricatures, everyday objects or they are segregationist memorabilia. In those cases, I believe _ and I mean this _ that they should either be in a garbage can or a museum.)
[VO: Museum pieces; Workers installing a slavery-era ball and chain into a glass case]
[NATSOT: Ball and chain]
[VO: Pilgrim pointing to objects during tour]
[NATSOT: Pilgrim giving presentation]
[VOICE-OVER]
THE IDEA, HOWEVER, IS NOT TO OFFEND. IT''S TO EDUCATE
[VO: White and Colored drinking fountains]
[NATSOT: Pilgrim to the group: The museum is all about teaching. Not a shrine to racism. It''s not all that other crap. What it is is using objects to get people to think deeply.]
[VOICE-OVER]
IT''S SOMETHING DAVID PILGRIM HAS BEEN STRIVING FOR HIS WHOLE LIFE
[VO: Pilgrim interacting with museum visitors]
[VOICE-OVER]
THE MUSEUM''S FOUNDER HAS BEEN COLLECTING SYMBOLS OF RACISM SINCE HE WAS A BOY GROWING UP IN ALABAMA
[VO: Museum objects, including a White Only swimming pool sign from Selma, Ala.]
[SOT/Pilgrim/Partially Covered]
(I believe, a thousand years from now, people are going to look at this period, and they''re going to marvel that humans mistreated each other on the basis of some ascribed characteristic like skin color.)
[VO: Zoom from a full-size Ku Klux Klan figure''s eyes through a lynching noose hanging from a fake tree inside the museum)
THEN A SOCIOLOGY PROFESSOR, PILGRIM GAVE HIS 2,000-PIECE COLLECTION OF RACIST OBJECTS TO FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1996. THE ITEMS WERE HOUSED IN A SINGLE ROOM ON CAMPUS. NOW, 9,000 PIECES STRONG, PILGRIM''S LIFETIME OF COLLECTING HAS A PERMANENT HOME IN A NEW MUSEUM IN THE BASEMENT OF THE SCHOOL''S LIBRARY
[VO: Pilgrim pointing to an oversize picture of Jim Crow, Ferris State University sign at entrance to campus; Exterior of library; Library sign]
[VO: Pilgrim talking to students who had just walked through the museum]
[NATSOT: Pilgrim to the students: So are you proud to have this on campus now? Students: Yeah. One student: Money well spent. Pilgrim, cupping his ear: Say that again? Laughter from all]
[VOICE-OVER]
IT MAY BE MONEY WELL SPENT, BUT IT''S NOT PARTICULARLY EASY TO LOOK AT
[VO: Zoom out to museum piece called Obama Monkey Doll, 2008]
[VOICE-OVER]
JUST ASK THOSE WHO HAVE HAD SNEAK-PEEKS
[VO: Ferris State student Nehemiah Israel and friends looking at exhibits]
[NATSOT: This is horrible, one of them says.]
[SOT: Israel, a 21-year-old sophomore/Partially Covered]
(There was stuff from 2008. I was like, ''Wow.'' People still think this. This is crazy. Like the Obama ''08 and the Obama Waffles. Wow. People are still that close-minded. It kind of blew me away.)
[VO: President Barack Obama-themed items from the collection]
[VOICE-OVER]
FOR PILGRIM, THE JIM CROW MUSEUM REPRESENTS NOT ONLY A ONE-OF-ITS-KIND TEACHING TOOL, BUT THE CULMINATION OF HIS LIFE''S WORK
[VO: Pilgrim showing a video of racist images to visitors]
[SOT/Pilgrim/Partially Covered]
[VOICE-OVER]
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Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a separate but equal status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern United States. While Northern segregation was generally de facto, there were patterns of segregation in housing enforced by covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory union practices for decades.
Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated, as were federal workplaces, initiated in 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson, the first Southern president since 1856. His administration practiced overt racial discrimination in hiring, requiring candidates to submit photos.
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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by conservative white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period, the laws were enforced until 1965. In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in the 1870s and 1880s, and were upheld in 1896, by the U.S. Supreme Court's separate but equal legal doctrine for facilities for African Americans, established with the court's decision in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South, after the Civil War (1861–65).
The legal principle of separate, but equal racial segregation was extended to public facilities and transportation, including the coaches of interstate trains and buses. Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded, compared to the facilities for white Americans; sometimes there were no black facilities. As a body of law, Jim Crow institutionalized economic, educational, and social disadvantages for African Americans. Legalized racial segregation principally existed in the Southern states, while Northern racial segregation generally was a matter of fact — enforced in housing with private covenants in leases, bank lending-practices, and employment-preference discrimination, including labor-union practices.
Jim Crow laws—sometimes, as in Florida, part of state constitutions—mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was already segregated. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat, initiated segregation of federal workplaces at the request of southern Cabinet members in 1913.
These Jim Crow laws revived principles of the 1865 and 1866 Black Codes, which had previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. Segregation of public (state-sponsored) schools was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. In some states it took years to implement this decision. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but years of action and court challenges have been needed to unravel the many means of institutional discrimination.
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JIM CROW laws - WikiVidi Documentary
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1896 with a separate, but equal status for African Americans in railroad cars. Public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War. This principle was extended to public facilities and transportation, including segregated cars on interstate trains and, later, buses. Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those which were then available to European Americans; sometimes they did not exist at all. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social dis...
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00:04:11: Origins of Jim Crow laws
00:13:57: Early attempts to break Jim Crow
00:17:07: Racism in the United States and defenses of Jim Crow
00:18:25: Post-World War II era
00:21:52: Courts
00:22:08: Public arena
00:23:49: End of de jure segregation
00:27:49: African-American life
00:29:42: Remembrance
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Jim Crow | Wikipedia audio article
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Jim Crow
00:02:49 1 Etymology
00:03:46 2 Origins of Jim Crow laws
00:14:00 3 Early attempts to break Jim Crow
00:16:46 4 Racism in the United States and defenses of Jim Crow
00:17:57 5 Post-World War II era
00:20:53 6 Removal
00:21:02 6.1 Courts
00:21:22 6.2 Public arena
00:22:57 6.3 End of ide jure/i segregation
00:26:13 6.4 African-American life
00:28:07 7 Remembrance
00:28:34 8 New Jim Crow
00:29:12 9 See also
00:29:21 10 Footnotes
00:29:30 11 Further reading
00:36:11 12 External links
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. All were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period, the laws were enforced until 1965. In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in the 1870s and 1880s, and were upheld in 1896, by the U.S. Supreme Court's separate but equal legal doctrine for facilities for African Americans, established with the court's decision in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South, after the Civil War (1861–65).
The legal principle of separate, but equal racial segregation was extended to public facilities and transportation, including the coaches of interstate trains and buses. Facilities for African Americans and Native Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded, compared to the facilities for white Americans; sometimes there were no facilities for people of color. As a body of law, Jim Crow institutionalized economic, educational, and social disadvantages for African Americans, and other people of color living in the south. Legalized racial segregation principally existed in the Southern states, while Northern racial segregation generally was a matter of fact — enforced in housing with private covenants in leases, bank lending-practices, and employment-preference discrimination, including labor-union practices.
Jim Crow laws—sometimes, as in Florida, part of state constitutions—mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was already segregated. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat, initiated segregation of federal workplaces at the request of southern Cabinet members in 1913.
These Jim Crow laws revived principles of the 1865 and 1866 Black Codes, which had previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. Segregation of public (state-sponsored) schools was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. In some states it took years to implement this decision. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but years of action and court challenges have been needed to unravel the many means of institutional discrimination.
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