Bob Gilgor Interview with Rebecca Clark
https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0536/excerpts/excerpt_507.html
In an interview of Rebecca Clark who recalls working in segregated North Carolina. It covers the Jim Crow discrimination in regards to money against African Americans. It talked about the job discrimination that many African Americans had to face since they were only allowed to work was in the domestic setting as “help” or as university help by janitorial work. They also work very long hours for very little pay which affected them extremely since this stopped them from being able to get better jobs so they could improve their financial situations. This connects to discrimination because even though African Americans were free, they were still oppressed by the systemic discrimination that was set in place to keep them down.
Peggy Van Scoyoc Interviews Mr. and Mrs. Farrer
In this source, both Mr. and Mrs. Farrer are recounting their experiences with school segregation. Mrs. Farrer had to walk ten miles to go to school when they were in elementary school. Their school was one room and all ages of the children were there so there wasn’t a clear education curriculum. All their books were also hand-me-downs. This shows discrimination because African Americans were not able to go to good schools and receive the same education as whites. This also shows discrimination because there were closer schools to them but they could not attend due to segregation which means they needed to do more to get less.
Jim Crow Advertisement
The caricature shows an airplane with white people, towing a blimp with a platform on which are seated African Americans. It was illustrated in an newspaper named Puck Illustrated in 1913. The African Americans in this caricature have big lips and dark skin, which was a way of dehumanizing them in order to keep them oppressed. In addition, artwork such as these were used to depict the ideas of Jim Crow to the public because they would persuade the public to think that segregation is justified. Also, that since whites are “superior” than African Americans must be treated in this way. This caricature shows in the simplest way of what was was being discussed in the interviews above.