- Collection:
- African American Lives
- Title:
- Jim Crowism, segregation, lynching, and democracy
- Creator:
- Thompson, S. M.
- Publisher:
- Virginia Union University
- Date of Original:
- 1920
- Subject:
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources
Lynching--History--20th century
Segregation - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- pamphlets
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In this pamphlet, educator and pastor S. M. Thompson defines discrimination against his race and sounds the call to combat it. His impetus to write was fueled by anger involving an incident on a street car. He had been told to move, as he was sitting in the wrong section, according to Jim Crow laws. Rev. Thompson, mentioning how Frederick Douglass claimed his own freedom, wrote that his race wants to fight and must fight for theirs. He envisioned an organization what would allow people of color to join forces to combat discrimination while acknowledging the good work the NAACP was doing in meeting that goal. He concluded with practical ways to join the struggle, including the paying of poll taxes in order to vote. Cover title is Jimcrowism and the running title is Jim Crowism, etc.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/digital/collection/p17336coll22/id/2659
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/iiif/2/p17336coll22:2659/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.
- Extent:
- 23 p.
- Original Collection:
- Jim Crowism, segregation, lynching, and democracy
- Contributing Institution:
- William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
- Rights:
-
