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Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle Over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954reviewed by Michael Fultz - September 15, 2006 Title: Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle Over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954 Author(s): Davison M. Douglas Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ISBN: 0521607833, Pages: 334, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com It is unfortunate that the catch phrase in the title of Davison Douglas’s noteworthy new book, Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954, is such a palpable misnomer. The phrase subtly reinforces one of the myths which Douglas deftly unmasks: the gentle conceit of northern people, as theologian Reinhold Niebuhr put it, that race prejudice is a vice peculiar to the south (p. 134). Most decidedly, Jim Crow, in its multiple manifestations, did not move North; it was there all along (see Berlin, 1998; Melish, 1998). And it has stayed there, varying, of course, in time and place, but basically demonstrating a sturdy and robust Yankee durability. Research in 2003 from the Harvard Civil Rights Project, for example, indicates that three northern states--New York, Illinois, and Michigan--had the nation’s highest percentages of black students in 90-100 percent minority schools, and conversely, led six states (add California,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Michael Fultz
University of Wisconsin-Madison E-mail Author MICHAEL FULTZ is Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the history of African American teachers in the South. Among his recent publications is "The Displacement of Black Educators Post-Brown: An Overview and Analysis," History of Education Quarterly, 44(1), Spring 2004, 11-45.
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