The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of injustice meted out to the black race

This is a vital primary source from the heart of Jim Crow. Written in the late 19th century when segregation was being cemented into Southern law, J.C. Coleman documents what he saw with his own eyes: the degrading rituals of racial discrimination in railroads, on streetcars, in hotels, in employment. He doesn't theorize from a distance. He reports. He names names. He quotes Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, Ida B. Wells Barnett, and other Black leaders who were organizing against lynching and disenfranchisement. The book functions as both testimony and indictment, assembling evidence of a system designed to dehumanize. For readers interested in Reconstruction, the origins of Jim Crow, or the long history of Black resistance, this is an essential document. It shows that the victims of these injustices were not silent. They were documenting. They were appealing to the conscience of the nation.