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Behind the veil

History of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s.

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Date of Original
1890/1959

Subject
Race relations
African Americans--Social life and customs
African Americans--Social conditions--Southern States
African Americans--Segregation--Southern States
African American women--Southern States
African American families--North Carolina
Racism--Southern States
Segregation--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations
Southern States--Social life and customs
Albany (Ga.)--Social life and customs
Fargo (Ark.)--Social life and customs
Birmingham (Ala.)--Social life and customs
Tuskegee (Ala.)--Social life and customs
Charlotte (N.C.)--Social life and customs
Durham (N.C.)--Social life and customs
Enfield (N.C.)--Social life and customs
New Bern (N.C.)--Social life and customs
Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs
Mississippi--Social life and customs
Memphis (Tenn.)--Social life and customs
Kentucky--Social life and customs
New Iberia (La.)--Social life and customs
New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs
Norfolk (Va.)--Social life and customs
Columbia (S.C.)--Social life and customs
Orangeburg (S.C.)--Social life and customs
Saint Helena Island (S.C.)--Social life and customs
Summerton (S.C.)--Social life and customs
Tallahassee (Fla.)--Social life and customs
United States--Race relations
Oral history

Location
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Macon County, 32.38597, -85.69267
United States, Alabama, Macon County, Tuskegee, 32.42415, -85.69096
United States, Arkansas, Monroe County, 34.67784, -91.20389
United States, Arkansas, Monroe County, Fargo, 34.95148, -91.18012
United States, Florida, Leon County, 30.45804, -84.27788
United States, Florida, Leon County, Tallahassee, 30.43826, -84.28073
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Louisiana, Iberia Parish, 29.51353, -91.83964
United States, Louisiana, Iberia Parish, New Iberia, 30.00354, -91.81873
United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, 30.06864, -89.92813
United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, North Carolina, Craven County, 35.11722, -77.08263
United States, North Carolina, Craven County, New Bern, 35.10849, -77.04411
United States, North Carolina, Durham County, Durham, 35.99403, -78.89862
United States, North Carolina, Halifax County, Enfield, 36.18099, -77.66664
United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, 35.24671, -80.83276
United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313
United States, North Carolina, New Hanover County, 34.18141, -77.86561
United States, North Carolina, New Hanover County, Wilmington, 34.22573, -77.94471
United States, South Carolina, Beaufort County, 32.35706, -80.69217
United States, South Carolina, Beaufort County, Saint Helena Island, 32.38686, -80.56066
United States, South Carolina, Clarendon County, 33.66581, -80.2164
United States, South Carolina, Orangeburg County, 33.43899, -80.8003
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, 35.184, -89.8956
United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898
United States, Virginia, City of Norfolk, 36.89126, -76.26188

Medium
instructional materials
annotated bibliographies
black-and-white photographs
oral histories (literary works)

Type
Still Image
Sound
Text

Description
American Life in the Jim Crow South is a major research project into the history of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s. The Jim Crow era was a time of undeniable oppression and exploitation of black Americans. However, these sixty years of legal segregation in the American South also represented a time when African Americans made monumental efforts to build their own communities and institutions, resisted discrimination in ways large and small despite personal risk, and put their ineluctable mark on American culture., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Metadata URL
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil/

Holding Institution
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Holding Institution David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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