THE AFRICAN AMERICANS

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS

MAKING A WAY OUT OF NO WAY (1897-1940)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 @ 9:00PM

 

Racist images in the Jim Crow era were used as propaganda to send messages that demeaned African Americans and legitimized violence against them. A visit to the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Michigan—home to the largest collection of racist memorabilia in the country—reveals racist memorabilia and messages in all forms, from kitchen utensils to postcards featuring images of public whippings. Among the museum’s collection is a row of caricatures—the Pickaninny, the Tom, the coon, the tragic mulatto, the Jezebel, the savage.

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