Jim Crow in Georgia:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings
Near White Plains, Georgia c. 1941
ONLINE RESOURCES
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Segregation.
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3610&sug=y
History of Jim Crow. http://jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
[Click on "Geography" and then Georgia to view Georgia's Jim Crow Legislation.]
Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University.
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/menu.htm
[Very good article on Jim Crow: "What Was Jim Crow;" as well as images of Jim Crow artifacts and discussions of racist stereotypes from the Jim Crow Era.]
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLES
Chambliss, Rollin. What Negro Newspapers of Georgia Say About Some Social Problems, 1933. Athens: 1934.
LXJ13 .A2 no. 13
Rowland, Arthur Ray. Bibliography of the Writings on Georgia History. Spartanburg: The Reprint Co., 1978.
Z1273 .R6 1977
[Includes numerous works pertaining to Jim Crow and Georgia, listed under "Negroes" in the index.]
Chesteen, Richard D. "Bibliographical Essay: The Legal Validity of Jim Crow." Journal of Negro History 56 (1971): 284-93.
This journal can be found in print in the Main Library, or accessed online via the GALILEO database JSTOR and via GALILEO’s databases EBSCOHOST Academic Search Complete and History Reference Center. The Georgia Room computer workstations provide access to these databases, which require a password for off-campus access.
Gavins, Raymond. "Literature on Jim Crow." OAH Magazine of History 18 (2004): 13-16.
This article discusses and lists the most important and influential historical works concerning Jim Crow, and can also be found in the Main Library or accessed via GALILEO and Academic Search Complete.
VERTICAL FILES, By Folder
This is a listing of the most relevant vertical file topics, but other folders also include related articles. Look through the vertical file index for a complete listing of folders and topics.
African Americans - Culture and History
Clippings and articles from newspapers, journals, and magazines from 1980s-1990s on topics including: Black history, historical leaders and business owners, current leaders, historical and contemporary culture.
African Americans (5 folders):
Clippings from 1900-1990s on topics including:
Voting, Politics, Protests, Churches and Religion, African American success stories and black leaders, Civil Rights Movement, Integration, Racial Discrimination, and Black History.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "In the Black Belt." American Magazine, July 1907.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "An Ostracized Race in Ferment." American Magazine, May 1908.
"Bibliography for the Negro in Georgia." no date.
Blaine, James G., L.Q.C. Lamar, Wade Hampton, James A. Garfield, Alex H. Stephens, Wendell Phillips, and others. "Ought the Negro to be Disenfranchised? Ought He to have been Enfranchised?" North American Review, March 1879.
Colquitt, Alfred H. "Is the Negro Vote Suppressed?" Forum, November 1887.
Dyer, Mrs. D.B. "Some Types in Dixieland." Cosmopolitan, January 1897.
"The Great Strike Down South." Current Literature, July 1909.
"Is the Black Man Superior to the White?" Tom Watson's Magazine, no date.
Martin, George Madden. "Race Cooperation." McClure's, Oct 1922.
Northen, W.J. "The Negro Situation - One Way Out." World Today, September 1907.
Procter, Rev. H.H., D.D. "A Southerner of the New School; William J. Northen." Southern Workman, July 1913.
Scomp, Prof. Henry A. "Can the Race Problem Be Solved?" Forum, December 1889.
"Some Books and Pamphlets, Music, Magazines, and Newspapers by Negro Writers, Composers, and Editors in the Colored Department of the Louisville Free Public Library." Louisville, KY: 1921.
Stone, P.H., State Agent for Negro Work. "Narrative Report--Men's Work." August 1929.
Thomas, David Y. "A Local Study of the Race Problem." Political Science Quarterly, June 1911.
Walrond, Eric D. "The Largest Negro Commercial Enterprise in the World." Forbes Magazine, 2 Feb 1924.
Black Colleges:
Clippings, primarily 1940s-1980s (most pre-1954) on topics including: Funding, Enrollment, Role of Black Colleges in Society, Segregation, Demand for Black Colleges
Black Legislators:
Clippings, primarily 1940s-1990s on topics including: Numbers of Black Legislators, Individual Legislators, Discrimination, Legislation about Race.
Ku Klux Klan - General (1-2):
Clippings, primarily 1920s-1960s on topics including: Opposition to the Klan, Support for the Klan, Membership, Politics, Cross Burnings, Mobs and Floggings
Boyd, Thomas. "Defying the Klan." Forum, July 1926.
Desmond, Shaw. "KKK: The Strangest Secret Society on Earth." Wide World, September 1921.
Glavis, Louis R. "The Ku Klux Klan Invades Two Capitals." Hearst's Magazine, February 1924.
Greene, Ward. "Notes for a History of the Klan." The Landmark, June 1924.
"The Negro Situation." KKK publication, ca. 1927.
Percy, Leroy. "The Modern Ku Klux Klan." Atlantic, July 1922.
Stockbridge, Frank. "The Ku Klux Klan Revival." Current History, April 1921.
White, Walter F. "Reviving the Ku Klux Klan." Forum, April 1921.
Lynching:
Clippings about historical lynchings, primarily from the 1980s-1990s
Ames, Jesse Daniel. "Southern Women and Lynching." October 1936.
"Georgia's Body-Blow at Mob Murder." Literary Digest, 4 December 1926.
Terrell, Mary Church. "Lynching from a Negro's Point of View." North American Review, January 1904, pp. 853-868.
Race Relations (2 folders):
Clippings primarily from 1950s-1990s on topics including:
Racial Unrest, Blackburn Custody Case, Integration, Politics, Civil Rights Movement, Business, Racism and Discrimination, and White Supremacy
Baker, Ray Stannard. "Following the Color Line: A Race Riot, and After." American Magazine, April 1907.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "Following the Color Line: White Man and Negro in the Black Belt." American Magazine, August 1907.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "The Tragedy of the Mulatto." American Magazine, April 1908, pp. 581-98.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "What to Do About the Negro." American Magazine, September 1908.
Pitman, J.H. "White Supremacy in the South." American Journal of Politics, June 1893.
Washington, Booker T. "The Golden Rule in Atlanta." Outlook, 15 December 1906.
Segregation 1900-1936:
Newspaper clippings from 1900-1950s, primarily 1900-1920s
Weatherford, W.D. "Racial Segregation in the Rural South." The Survey, 2 January 1913, pp. 375-77.
CONTEMPORARY COMMENTARIES, By Call Number
This list includes the most relevant, important, or unusual sources found in the Georgia Room, but is by no means inclusive. Browse the shelves around these works or search GIL to find other similar sources.
Grady, Henry Woodfin. The Race Problem: A Lecture. Chicago: G.L. Shuman, ca. 1900.
E185.3 .G7
Washington, Booker T. and W.E.B. DuBois. The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1907.
E185.3 .W317
DuBois, W.E. Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1926.
E185.5 .D81
School Books and Racial Antagonism: A Study of Omissions and Inclusions that Make for Misunderstanding. Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1935.
E185.61 .E38s
Eleazer, Robert B. Understanding Our Neighbors: A Factual Study of America's Major Race Problem. Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1943.
E185.61 .E43 1943
Ethridge, Mark. America's Obligation to Its Negro Citizens: An Address. Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1937.
E185.61 .E84a
Fleming, William H. Slavery and the Race Problem in the South, With Special Reference to the State of Georgia. Boston: D. Estes and Co., 1906.
E185.61 .F59
Harris, Judia C. Jackson. Race Relations. Athens: 1925.
E185.61 .H314r
Miller, Kelly. An Appeal to Reason, An Open Letter to John Temple Graves. 1906.
E185.61 .M64
Miller, Alexander F. and Mozell Hill. Safety, Security, and the South. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, [1951].
E185.61 .N88
Northen, William Jonathan. Christianity and the Negro Problem in Georgia, Delivered Before the Evangelical Ministers' Association of Atlanta, September 4, 1911. [Atlanta]: 1911.
E185.61 .N88
Norwood, Judge Thomas M. Address on the Negro, by Judge Thomas M. Norwood on Retiring from the Bench, December 31, 1907. Savannah: Presses Braid and Hutton, [1907].
E185.61 .N895a
Odum, Howard W. Race and Rumors of Race: Challenge to American Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943.
E185.61 .O271
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. The Central Theme of Southern History. Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Press, 1928.
E185.61 .P563c
Price, Margaret. Condition of Our Rights. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, [1949].
E185.61 .S726c
Sprigle, Ray. In the Land of Jim Crow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949.
E185.61 .S75
Holley, Joseph W. You Can't Build a Chimney from the Top: The South through the Life of a Negro Educator. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1948.
E185.97 .H715
White, Walter F. A Man Called White. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
E185.97 .W6 A3 1969
Grenville, Allyn. Making Farm Life Satisfying: Camilla-Zack Country Life Center, Hancock County, Mayfield, Georgia. ca. 1930.
HN45 .M39 G70 1930z
Shields, Art. The Killing of William Milton. New York: Daily Worker, 1948.
HV6250.4 .E75 S430 1948
Cook, Eugene. Compilation of Georgia Laws and Opinions of the Attorney General Relating to Segregation of the Races. Atlanta: State Law Department, 1956.
KFG411.5 .N4 A3 1956
Odum, Howard W. and Guy B. Johnson. Negro Workaday Songs. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926.
ML355.6 .O271n
POST JIM CROW ANALYSES
Again, browse the shelves and GIL for other secondary works on Jim Crow and Georgia.
Oltman, Adele. Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
BR563 .N4 O48 2008
Melnick, Jeffrey. Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000.
E184.36 .A34 M45 2000
Henderson, Alexa Benson and Janice Sumler-Edmond, eds. Freedom's Odyssey: African American History Essays from Phylon. Atlanta: Clark Atlanta University Press, 1999.
E184.5 .F74 1999
Smith, Lillian. Killers of the Dream. New York: Norton, 1961.
E185.61 .S654k
Newby, I.A. Jim Crow's Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, 1900-1930. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.
E185.61 .N475
Ditter, John. Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
E185.93 .G4 D57
Inscoe, John C. Georgia in Black and White: Explorations in Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
E185.93 .G4 G46 1994
Grant, Donald L. The Way it Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.
E185.93 .G4 G75 1993
Lewis, Morey S. Learning and Working for Ourselves: Education and Economic Development among the Georgia Freedmen, 1864-1920. M.A. thesis, Michigan State University, 2001.
E185.93 .G4 L39 2001a
Bohannon, William E. A Letter to American Negroes. New York: Pioneer, 1948.
E186.86 .B630 1948
Schultz, Mark. The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
F292 .H3 S385 2007
Thurmond, Michael L. A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History. Athens: Clarke County School District, 1978.
F294 .A7 T48 2001
Bauerlein, Mark. Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001.
F294 .A89 N423 2001
Dorsey, Allison. To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
F294 .A89 N435 2004
Ferguson, Karen. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
F294 .A89 N438 2002
Godshalk, David Fort. Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
F294 .A89 N439 2005
Walsh, Julia Mary. "Horny-Handed Sons of Toil": Workers, Politics, and Religion in Augusta, Georgia, 1880-1910. Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1999.
F294 .A9 W35 1999a
Pearson, Hugh. Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South. New York: Free Press, 2000.
F294 .B35 P43 2000
Manis, Andrew M. Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2004.
F294 .M2 M323
Donohue, John J. Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960. Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.
HB1 .W654 no. 6418
Wexler, Laura. Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America. New York: Scribner, 2003.
HV6465 .G4 W49 2003
Ellis, Mary Louise. Surrender to Violence: Mob Justice in Southwest Georgia, July 1899. M.A. thesis, Florida State University, 1984.
HV9475 .G4 E44 1984
Harlan, Louis R. Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1958.
LC2801 .H2 (1958)
Mosley, Enola Gay Smith. Rediscovering Educational Giants: African American Schools in Bulloch County, Georgia, 1920-1949. Ed.D. diss., Georgia Southern University, 1999.
LC2802 .G4 M67 1999a
Campbell, Gavin James. Music and the Making of a Jim Crow Culture, 1900-1925. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 1999.
ML200.8 .A56 C36 1999a
SECONDARY SOURCES - Photo Collections
Mason, Herman "Skip", Jr. African-American Life in DeKalb County, 1823-1970. Charleston: Arcadia, 1998.
F292 .D3 M35 1998
Mason, Herman "Skip", Jr. Going Against the Wind: A Pictorial History of African-Americans in Atlanta. Marietta: Longstreet Press, 1992.
F294 .A8 G64 1992
Mason, Herman "Skip", Jr. Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties. Dover, NH: Arcadia, 1997.
F294 .A8 M38 1997
Lassiter, Patrice Shelton. Generations of Black Life in Kennesaw and Marietta, Georgia. Charleston: Arcadia, 1999.
F294 .K46 L37 1999
Mason, Herman "Skip", Jr. Washington, Georgia. Charleston: Arcadia, 1999.
F294 .W27 M37 1999
UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and cannot be checked out.
Deaton, Stanley Kenneth. Violent Redemption: The Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia 1868-1871. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1988.
Moseley, Clement Charlton. Invisible Empire: A History of the Ku Klux Klan in Twentieth Century Georgia, 1915-1965. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1968.
Onkst, David Hugh. Black World War Two Veterans and the G.I. Bill of Rights in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, 1944-1947. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1990.
Percy, William Alexander. Jim Crow, Uncle Sam, and the Tuskegee Flying Units: Race Relations in the United States Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
Potenziani, David Daniel. Look to the Past: Richard B. Russell and the Defense of Southern White Supremacy. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1981.
Turner, Jeffrey Alan. Agitation and Accommodation in a Southern Black Newspaper: The Savannah Tribune, 1886-1915. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1993.
Smith, Albert Colbey. Down Freedom's Road: The Contours of Race, Class, and Property Crime in Black-Belt Georgia, 1866-1910. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1982.
FICTION/LITERATURE ON JIM CROW AND GEORGIA
Caldwell, Erskine, selected by Ray McIver. The Black & White Stories of Erskine Caldwell. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1984.
PS3505 .A322 A6 1984
Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1944.
PS3537 .N653 S8 1985
Toomer, Jean. Cane. New York: University Place Press, 1951.
[The Georgia Room holds various editions of this work, with Introductions by Arna Bontemps, Waldo Frank, and Darwin T. Turner.]
PS3539 .O478 C3; PS3539 .T673 C2
Byars, Patti Wilson. Separate Fountains. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 1999.
PS3552 .Y374 S4 1999
JOURNALS AND RELEVANT ARTICLES
These articles can be found in print in the Georgia Room or accessed through GALILEO. Also search databases such as JSTOR, America: History and Life, and Web of Science for other articles on Jim Crow.
Atlanta University Publications. 1896-1916. E185.5 .A881p
Phylon. 1940-1992. E185.5 .P578
SCLC Magazine. 1981-2006. E185.5 .S17
New South. 1946-1973. E185.5 .N532
Georgia Historical Quarterly. 1917-current. F281 .G352
Journal of Southwestern Georgia History. 1983-1999. F286 .J8
Journal of South Georgia History. 1999-2004. F286 .J8
Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South. 1927-2005. F294 .A8 A881
[Formerly Atlanta Historical Society Bulletins; Atlanta Historical Bulletins; and Atlanta Historical Journal.]
Journal of Southern Legal History. 1994-2006. K7 .E654.
Burnham, Robert A. "Interracial Cooperation in the Age of Jim Crow: The Booker T. Washington Community Center of Macon, Georgia." Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia & the South 42 (1999): 19-35.
Campbell, Walter E. "Profit, Prejudice, and Protest: Utility Competition and the Generation of Jim Crow Streetcars in Savannah, 1905-1907." Georgia Historical Quarterly 70 (1986): 197-231.
Kuhn, Cliff. "We Lived that Way: An Oral History Interview with Joe Jacobs." Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia & the South 36 (1993): 54-67.
Moseley, Charlton. "Latent Klanism in Georgia, 1890-1915." Georgia Historical Quarterly 56 (1972): 365-386.
Newman, Harvey K. "Piety and Segregation: White Protestant Attitudes Toward Blacks in Atlanta, 1865-1905." Georgia Historical Quarterly 63 (1979): 238-251.
Ruechel, Frank. "New Deal Public Housing, Urban Poverty, and Jim Crow: Techwood and University Homes in Atlanta."Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 915-937.
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Created by Kathryn Tucker.