Remembering Jim Crow

Just because Sherman marched through the South and razed Atlanta doesn't mean that racism ended with the Civil War. Blacks were still being lynched well into the 20th century.



Everyday at work, one of my bosses, Herman, and I drink from the same water fountain. That was illegal here in some parts of the United States not so long ago because of Jim Crow laws.



Some folks at Duke University have put together an audio documentary called Remembering Jim Crow in which blacks & whites remember life during the Jim Crow era. And these laws were enforced well into the 1960s - only about 40 years ago. That's not a long time. There are still millions of Americans alive today that remember those times.