Many black authors had written about the hardship of living in the Jim Crow South. A few white writers ... readers can identify and perhaps begin to face their own denial of prejudice.

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... Ferguson, after a black man in New Orleans attempted to sit in a whites-only railway car.

close Jim Crow lawsThe laws that introduced segregation in the US South (the laws that kept black people and white people apart). These laws were strictly enforced in the south of the country.