Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow

Neil R. McMillen

How did black Mississippians live, work, resist and survive under Jim Crow, and how did white supremacy take hold there?

At a glance

You will understand that segregation in Mississippi lived in habit and attitude well before it was sanctioned by law
You will see how black voter registration in Mississippi fell from nearly universal after the Civil War to a few percent within a generation
You will spot how whites who lived beside black Mississippians still believed they understood them, a delusion that white supremacy fostered