Surviving Jim Crowism

More than nine million black American families migrated from the southern United States to parts of the north and west during the early to mid-1960s to escape the terror of Jim Crowism, a Southern strategy designed to strip away the dignity of Black Americans whose ancestors, by little more than two generations, were kidnapped from Africa and brought to America and enslaved. Surviving Jim Crowism is a recollection of stories by Lafayette "Tom" Garrett, who was born in rural East Texas to sharecr