Everything That Rises Must Converge | Historical Context
Southern Race Relations
The generation gap between Julian and his mother manifests itself through their disagreement over race relations, an issue that was a pressing part of public discourse in the early 1960s.
At the turn of the twentieth century, a series of ‘‘Jim Crow’’ laws had been instituted throughout the South; these laws enforced segregation of public places. In fact, for the first half of the twentieth century, blacks and whites used separate facilities: parks, restaurants, clubs, restrooms, and transportation.
In 1954 a landmark Supreme...
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