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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073076242 EAN: 9781586482367 ISBN: 158648236X Label: PublicAffairs Manufacturer: PublicAffairs Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: 2004-04 Publisher: PublicAffairs Release Date: April 27, 2004 Studio: PublicAffairs Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: An extraordinary photographic record of life under segregation, now with a new cover and special price to mark the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As the nation reflects on the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling against "separate, but equal," this remarkable book of photographs reveals the realities of segregated life for urban blacks in the South. Henry Clay Anderson established Anderson Photo Service in Greenville, Mississippi in 1948. Throughout the 1950s and 60s, he photographed this relatively prosperous black community, recording the daily lives of the men and women who built the schools, churches, and hospitals that served their segregated society. His photographs of subjects ranging from family gatherings to nightclub musicians have strong political overtones. In his accompanying essay, writer Clifton Taulbert guides us through the photographs, recalling his own memories of Greenville. The book also contains an interview with the late photographer and an essay on the political climate at the time. Together, these materials create a window into a world that has been overlooked in the aftermath of the civil rights movement--a community of prosperous, optimistic black Southerners who considered themselves first-class Americans despite living in a deeply segregated world. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A successful black communityDuring the middle of the twentieth century, American black and white people lived in separate communities by law. White people never entered black areas while black people only entered white areas if they were employed as butlers or maids. This segregation created many impoverished black ghettos but there were a few black communities that prospered and this book is about one of them, in Greenville, in the American state of Mississippi. The inspiration for - and focus of - the book is ... Read More Rating:  - BLACK MIDDLE CLASS LIFE UNDER JIM CROW IN THE DEEP SOUTH...This book is a moving pictorial testament to the daily life of middle class blacks in the deep South in the time of Jim Crow, as well as on the cusp of the civil rights movement. It is a slice of black life with which most whites at the time were unfamiliar, as most photo-journalists chose to capture the more sensational types of images in the black community. Henry Clay Anderson was a black school teacher and minister who, courtesy of the G. I. Bill, studied photography and became a ... Read More 
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