A Raisin in the Sun and the Jim Crow Laws
A look into Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and it's historical connection to the Jim Crow Laws. A project prepared for Dr. Milton's Eng 102 Class by Chris Myers.
Works Sited
Chicago’s Black Metropolis: Understanding History Through a Historic Place. 2004.
The National Parks Service. 16 June 2004.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/....wwlps/lessons/53blac
Encyclopedia Britannica Plessy v. Ferguson
https://www.britannica.com/eve....nt/Plessy-v-Ferguson
Challenging Jim Crow
https://www.apstudynotes.org/u....s-history/topics/cha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Fourteenth_Amendment
http://landmarkcases.org/en/Pa....ge/421/Background_Su
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
https://ferris.edu/jimcrow/origins.htm
Plessy v. Ferguson. Landmark Supreme Court Cases. 15 June 2004.
http://www.landmarkcases.org/p....lessy/excerpts_maj.h
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (New York: Henry Holt and Company): 89.
http://www.studythepast.com/we....ekly/LouisianaCrow.h
http://www.studythepast.com/weekly/illcrow.html
Pictures and music from...
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000054/
Urban Decay: Decay in South Chicago Illinois
[a]www.worldofdecay.blogspot.com[/a]
Chicago Planning History
[a]www.worldofdecay.blogspot.com[/a]
Southside Deli: 1941
www.shorpy.com
Separate but Equal??? By GH Holt Photography
www.flickr.com
The Segregation System
www.slideplayer.com
Separate but Equal
www.sites.google.com
Jump Jim Crow
www.en.wikipedia.org
Blackface: The Birth of an American Stereotype
www.nmaahc.si.edu