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David Pilgrim Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Ferris State University 231-591-3946 pilgrimd@ferris.edu

Lessons From the Jim Crow Museum. Some of these images are vulgar; some will offend members of the audience. The presenter did not create the images. The images are not meant to shock, but to stimulate honest discussion. Many of these images are found on objects in the Jim Crow Museum.

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David Pilgrim Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Ferris State University 231-591-3946 pilgrimd@ferris.edu

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  1. Lessons From the Jim Crow Museum Some of these images are vulgar; some will offend members of the audience. The presenter did not create the images. The images are not meant to shock, but to stimulate honest discussion. Many of these images are found on objects in the Jim Crow Museum. David Pilgrim Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Ferris State University 231-591-3946 pilgrimd@ferris.edu

  2. Inside the New Museum

  3. More than Colored Water Fountains Jim Crow became a name for the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was a way of life.Blacks were segregated, deprived of the right to vote, and subjected to verbal abuse, discrimination and violence without redress in the courts. Richard Wormser, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. xi. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939

  4. African-American Tenant Farmer's Home by Ben Shahn, 1935

  5. William Brown, lynched in Omaha, NE, 1919

  6. Racial Propaganda Jim Crow attitudes, values, norms, laws, and etiquette were supported by millions of everyday objects that portrayed blacks as intellectually, morally, and culturally inferior “Others.”

  7. That’s Not All, Folks Our goal is to get people to talk openly and honestly about race, race relations, racism, and other isms. We want to listen.

  8. What do you see in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find?

  9. Worth More than a Thousand Words

  10. So, after all these years what have I learned? I must remind myself that most visitors are seeing the collection for the first time—I have seen it, experienced it, many times.

  11. Not Confined to the Past All the objects in the JCM are still being sold. Many of the images are still being used on new objects. This is an old image reproduced on a new object.

  12. JS Roundhouse Mids (The Shackle Shoe) In June 2012, Adidas was lambasted for proposing these sneakers. Most of the criticism linked the shoes to slavery; however, it made more sense to criticize Adidas for romanticizing prison culture.

  13. The Legacy of Jim Crow The racial attitudes, values, and behaviors that were pervasive during the Jim Crow era have not completely disappeared from the United States.

  14. Honesty: The Best Policy? The targets were made and sold by Hiller Armament Compay (Hillerarmco) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The effigies of Trayvon Martin were sold for $16.50 for 10 targets. The product sold out in 2 days. When asked for a comment a spokesperson for the company (who chose to remain anonymous) said: "My main motivation was to make money off the controversy."

  15. Reflective Sadness The most common response by visitors is a kind of reflective sadness. If this is where they end, then we have failed.

  16. The Value of Material Culture If you show me the objects created by a culture, I can tell you a lot about the culture’s attitudes, tastes, and values.

  17. Us Versus Them

  18. Us versus Him

  19. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail

  20. Not (only) a Black Thing Although Africans and their American descendants have been caricatured more often and in more ways, every minority group living in the United States has been caricatured.

  21. Jews as The Other

  22. T is for Terrorist

  23. Border(ing) Hatred

  24. S is for Self-righteous

  25. Early 1900s Anti-Suffrage Postcards

  26. Violating the Script http://www.scpronet.com/wordpress/wpcontent/uploads/2007/11/hillary20urinal.jpg May 29, 2008 http://www.fadingad.com/blog/hillary_spy.jpg

  27. Misogyny: Hard to Spell, Easy to Practice Sex sells. More specifically, the sexual objectification of women sells.

  28. “Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” Letter from Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr. US civil rights leader and clergyman (1929 - 1968)

  29. “The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans the river.” ~H. Ross Perot

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