Page Two: Kings of Mean

The worst legacy of this administration is the terrible behavior it fostered in its citizens

"...wish, a hope, an imagined place. Segregation ruled, and Jim Crow was the standard social condition of the South..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Column by Louis Black

John Sayles

The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper

"...across the street, Ace of Spades, which lures the crowds with a shiny, new jukebox. In hock to the..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

'Honeydripper' Blues

Next-generation Austin bluesman Gary Clark Jr. relives 1950 with John Sayles' big-screen blues, Honeydripper

"...Honeydripper takes place in the waning days of the Jim Crow South. Cotton farms and the local Army base..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two: The Moment Belongs to the Music

John Sayles' 'Honeydripper' takes flight

"...The movie is set in a time of change. Jim Crow (legalized segregation) is still very much in effect..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Drum Roll, Please

Each committee was given its agenda of issues to look into before next session, giving an inkling of what battles may be fought when Lege reconvenes in 2009

"...back not merely failed legislation from last session but Jim Crow, calling voter ID part of the same national..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austinites Mobilize in Support of the Jena 6

Local march part of one of largest civil rights demonstrations in recent history

"...vu, resurrecting the ghosts of segregation, racial violence, and Jim Crow-era justice. It began when black students defied informal..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

Page Two: Grand Illusions

The only problem with wide-ranging, all-encompassing conspiracy theories is that they're wrong

"...5,000 lynchings in the South. Schools were segregated, and Jim Crow laws – basically institutionalized segregation – were widespread...."

July 6, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Rock & Roll Books

"...other pointing toward heaven. Her fundamentalist upbringing in the Jim Crow South sparred with her desire for worldly success,..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Leavin' a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas

"...Norman Rockwellesque tales of a simpler time. Hard work, Jim Crow racism, grinding poverty, and lynchings are told as..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South

Marcie Cohen Ferris traces the story of the Jewish immigrants in the South from larger urban centers like Savannah and Atlanta to more rural areas like the Mississippi Delta

"...but in the 19th-century world of slave culture and Jim Crow, Jews in the South struggled with the stigma..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Food Feature by Erin Mosow

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Jim Crow is back, and this time he's got a..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column

Congratulations to Prop. 2 Supporters

"...think the pseudo-Christian bigots are going to stop there? Jim Crow is back, and this time he's got a..."

Nov. 14, 2005 Postmarks

Home Is Where the Hatred Is

Dialoguing with 'Souled American' author Kevin Phinney

"...popular music since the days of Zip Coon and Jim Crow. Having served the better part of the past..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

People Get Ready

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

"...reforms since Reconstruction. Poll taxes and other vestiges of Jim Crow law crumbled overnight, leaving segregationists terrified they'd face..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Kevin Phinney

Chasing The Rodeo: On Wild Rides and Big Dreams, Broken Hearts and Broken Bones, and One Man's Search for the West

W.K. Stratton's combination of memoir, profiles, and travel narrative with lengthy digressions into rodeo culture and folklore makes the sport seem familiar even if it defies easy categorization

"...course, this didn't protect him from the dehumanization of Jim Crow, which consigned him to the livestock car while..."

June 24, 2005 Books Review by John Dicker

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...many freedmen gave themselves new names. County courthouses were overcrowded as blacks also applied for licenses to legalize their..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...lodging place for black students and travelers during the Jim Crow era. There are more than 2,000 Texas locations..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

It Doesn't End With the Internet

Amalia Anderson on old-fashioned organizing

"...if you can't even afford dial-up? It's not exactly Jim Crow territory, but issues of discrimination could arise if..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Letters at 3AM

Statistics on American education tell a dreadful story, the story of an advanced technological society slipping back to a state of ignorance and superstition

"...far-right revisions of the Civil War, the Marshall Plan, Jim Crow, and the New Deal (NYT, Jan. 26). It..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Dead Like Me: The Complete First Season

'Life sucks, and then you die. And then it still sucks.'

"...Jackson (PBS/Paramount): Ken Burns conveys the hard-fought life of Jim Crow America's first black heavyweight champ...."

Jan. 14, 2005 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste

"...matter of institution and custom. Slavery, and after it, Jim Crow, was firstly a thing of profit, secondly a..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman

Armchair Sociology

"...African-American culture. Over the last 150 years, Civil War, Jim Crow laws, desegregation, and white flight shifted the population..."

June 14, 2004 Postmarks

Montana Blues

Great-grandmother Marie died of a broken heart in Billings, Mont.

"...After the Civil War, however, their descendants got behind Jim Crow in a big way, especially around Fredericksburg, in..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

In Space

Voting isn't easy

"...government used to make this painfully obvious. Without overt Jim Crow laws and poll taxes, today's voting obstacle course..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Calling Mom

An essay on the author's mother and her generation of African-American women

"...age and circumstances in context, when she was born, Jim Crow was still a relatively young man. Lynchings were..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Letters at 3AM

McGuffey's Readers helped establish American education as we know it (or knew it).

"...his students it didn't inoculate against committing genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, child labor, the suppression of women, bigotry of..."

April 27, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Mahalia!

In the Austin Playhouse production of Mahalia!, director Don Toner has staged a neat chamber piece with a trio of talented actor / singers, allowing the singing to be spectacular and the rest of the play to operate simply.

"...evening wears a little with no real dramatic urgency. Jim Crow, Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Martin..."

April 6, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

SXSW Interactive Festival

The young and the geek-chic

"...that last year the same panel attracted a standing-room-only crowd. The aggregated age of the four panelists probably didn't..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

A Tinker's Damn

"...is the bitter reality playing itself out in the Jim Crow South. Like his father, Tink Buchanan, Carter tries..."

March 2, 2001 Books Review by Mike Shea

Killer Reputation

Murders from Austin's not quite forgotten past

"...those of any other Southern city, were stunted under Jim Crow, but the city was relatively free of lynch..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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