Black Codes, Segregation and the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy and Jim Crow (Scott Giltner) - a podcast by Rob Mellon

Dr. Scott Giltner explains the ugly legacy of white supremacy and Jim Crow in America in the period after Reconstruction.  He discusses the immediate impact of the 13th Amendment and how Southern leaders attempted to maintain power and economic control.  The discussion includes the philosophy that formed the basis for white supremacy and how it was used to justify repression of the black population.  Dr. Giltner continues with an explanation of the origins of the term Jim Crow and the impact of those laws on black citizens in the 1880s to the 1960s.  He offers examples of segregation laws, how they started and how far they went.  He explains early opposition to Jim Crow including the Plessy v. Ferguson case which established the concept of "separate, but equal".  He speaks about the political impact of Jim Crow in the form of the "grandfather clause", poll taxes and literacy tests.  The conversation ends with Jim Crow during the Cold War and  vestiges that still remain.

HOST:  Rob Mellon

FEATURED BREW:  Zwickel Bavarian-Style Lager (Urban Chestnut Brewing Company)

BOOK:  Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

MUSIC:  Bones Fork

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