Word: jimcrowism
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JOHN A. WILLIAMS, author of The King God Didn't Save, was born near Jackson, Mississippi, and like fellow black novelist, John O. Killens, began writing while he was a soldier in a jimcrow regiment in the Pacific. Williams, along with Killens, Ellison and others, was strongly influenced by Richard Wright, who was also from Mississippi, and like Wright, Williams has traveled and lived in Africa and Europe. Perhaps it is because of this common background and experience that he has obtained a particular understanding of Wright, and is the author of a perceptive biography of him, The Most Native...
...investment in the dream had been too heavy for its foreclosure to go unresisted. The response came in Montgomery the day Rose Parks, a respected former secretary of the local NAACP, refused to obey a bus driver's order to yield her seat in the forward part of the jimcrow section of a crowded...
...than was "the stupidity and short-sightedness of the Montgomery city officials." In retrospect, one of the most surprising recomplished only the desegregation sults of the boycott was that it ac-of the buses; while leaving other public accommodations such as the city's school system and recreational facilities jimcrow. Williams's explanation of this rightfully centers upon the nature of the black South's middle class and its control of the scope and direction of the protest. "The middle class in Montgomery felt it had pushed far enough; that it did not need open schools, parks or playgrounds; that...
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