Dark Journey

This is a history of Mississippi's black people, its majority people, and their struggles to achieve autonomy and full citizenship during the critical period of disfranchisement, segregation, and exclusion following 1890.

List of Tables

x

Preface

xiii

PART I The Black Place

Jim Crow and the Limits of Freedom, 1890-1940

No Foolish Consistency Here

3

(3)

The Logical Extreme

6

(8)

``Blood Will Tell''

14

(9)

The Etiquette of Race

23

(5)

The Instrument in Reserve

28

(7)

PART II Separate and Unequal

The Politics of the Disfranchised

Legitimate Interlude

35

(3)

``We Came Here to Exclude the Negro''

38

(10)

``My People Cannot Vote Down Here''

48

(9)

Blacks and Tans

57

(14)

Expecting Little, Getting Less

71

(1)

Education: The ``Mere Faint Gesture''

Of Burdens White and Black

72

(11)

Professor Hopkins's Schools

83

(6)

``Educate a Nigguh''

89

(9)

Higher Education in the ``Emergency Period''

98

(13)

PART III Working and Striving

Farmers without Land

Rungs on the Ladder

111

(12)

The New Servitude

123

(11)

Outdoing Ol' Mostah

134

(6)

``Returning Us to Slavery''

140

(10)

Postscript to the Cotton Patch

150

(5)

Black Labor/Black Capital

``Nigger Work''

155

(9)

The Artisans

164

(2)

The Professionals

166

(11)

The Entrepreneurs

177

(9)

The Mound Bayou Proposition

186

(4)

Epitaph for the Group Economy

190

(7)

PART IV Under White Law

Jim Crow's Courts

Trial by Ordeal

197

(4)

``Negro Law''

201

(5)

The Mob in the Court Room

206

(11)

On Appeal: Between Caste and Law

217

(7)

Judge Lynch's Court

White Death

224

(4)

First on the Roll

228

(5)

``Negro Barbeques''

233

(5)

Popular Justice

238

(7)

``Unknown Causes''

245

(6)

Going Underground

251

(6)

PART V A Resistant Spirit

``Northboun''': Mississippi's Black Diaspora

Prewar Patterns

257

(5)

``Many Thousand Go''

262

(5)

The Distant Magnet

267

(5)

A Curse and a Blessing

272

(3)

No Threat Intended

275

(7)

The Gathering Challenge

Behind the Mask

282

(3)

Feasible Limits

285

(3)

Dark Journey: Stage One

288

(9)

New Realities: Stage Two

297

(5)

The Resistant Spirit: Stage Three

302

(15)

The Impending Revolution

317

(2)

Notes

319

(100)

Index

419

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