tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post1899165577399976284..comments2024-03-23T13:37:38.462-05:00Comments on Between the Gate Posts: Jim Crow Laws Making a Way Out of No WayLindaRehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12968656842601664293noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-46644561213660393352016-08-12T13:45:12.723-05:002016-08-12T13:45:12.723-05:00"It's not easy reading when you think abo..."It's not easy reading when you think about how tough this was to live through."<br /><br />You can understand such things better than I, but you have been the partial inspiration for a post about how I remember things to have been from my point of view as a white teenager, and I would love to know what you think of it. You can do me no greater favor than to share your perceptions with me. In writing today’s post, I got out old annuals in search of photos of the first black kids to come to BHS (I couldn’t find any), and this got me to wondering if all-black schools had such things as school rings, school annuals, and alumni get-togethers. I just really don’t have a clue about how your school experiences differed from my own. I don't even know for sure whether you went to segregated schools, although I suspect you must have started out that way.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-44621373329027893182016-08-10T11:41:31.334-05:002016-08-10T11:41:31.334-05:00Such questions show how easy it is to be oblivious...Such questions show how easy it is to be oblivious when you're a member of the ruling race.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-34297953202962891232016-08-10T11:39:59.501-05:002016-08-10T11:39:59.501-05:00I remember this too, and also that black people ha...I remember this too, and also that black people had their own waiting room or at least sat in their own part of a common waiting room. I also very much remember blacks being buried in a separate and poorly maintained part of Brookhaven’s cemeteries, and that their gravestones were either very small or non-existent (the funeral home’s markers would be all that they had). The Jews had their own cemetery, but I don’t know if they did this to avoid being treated like blacks.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-42543548805759833902016-08-10T11:36:25.270-05:002016-08-10T11:36:25.270-05:00For some reason, this post makes me think of the m...For some reason, this post makes me think of the movie “The Jerk” in in which Steve Martin said, “I grew up a poor black child in Mississippi.” I loved that movie.<br /><br />When my sister became a nurse, she had to use a separate entrance to the hospital than the one that doctors used, and she was expected to stand up anytime a doctor entered a room she was in. So it was that nurses and blacks had a few things in common. By the time my wife became a nurse in the early eighties, those days were over, but she still couldn’t question a doctors’ orders even if she knew they were wrong. Nowadays, nurses can question orders, and if the doctor doesn’t like it, the nurse can file a formal complaint with the hospital. My wife, Peggy, has done that, and the hospital listened and tried to be fair. Maybe the Civil Rights Movement also helped nurses although that wasn’t it’s intent, and few nurses would think to ponder the possibility.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-27099035314740827592013-11-18T20:14:18.001-06:002013-11-18T20:14:18.001-06:00It's not easy reading when you think about how...It's not easy reading when you think about how tough this was to live through.LindaRehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12968656842601664293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-15819531908863136222013-11-18T20:02:18.139-06:002013-11-18T20:02:18.139-06:00Whew, reading through some of the Jim Crow laws on...Whew, reading through some of the Jim Crow laws on the list makes me cringe. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-58054493265338388042013-11-18T18:25:07.890-06:002013-11-18T18:25:07.890-06:00Lela, I remember visits to a segregated doctor'...Lela, I remember visits to a segregated doctor's office for ear infections, etc., but don't remember the signs. We had our separate entry. I remember going back after integration. I went to the door we used on previous visits and my mother grabbed my hand, told me we were going thru another door. I heard something different in my mother's voice, don't know what it was but even as a child, I knew a change had arrived.LindaRehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12968656842601664293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-6979444743557447902013-11-18T17:56:37.240-06:002013-11-18T17:56:37.240-06:00Linda
I have been asked the exact same question as...Linda<br />I have been asked the exact same question as to why African American needed their own magazine, etc., but it was in the early 80's by someone I worked with. I pretty much gave here the same answer. I can recall those white only signs, colored enter in the rear of the department store signs, they bring back so many memories as a child in Louisiana. Totally enjoyed your story on Jim Crow Laws.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-78381522298764783492013-11-18T15:09:41.878-06:002013-11-18T15:09:41.878-06:00I hope she benefited from our exchanges, I did.I hope she benefited from our exchanges, I did.LindaRehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12968656842601664293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-76748167932520107902013-11-18T14:59:46.532-06:002013-11-18T14:59:46.532-06:00You are welcome Ms Viciki.You are welcome Ms Viciki.LindaRehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12968656842601664293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-58108014845041425722013-11-18T14:15:56.480-06:002013-11-18T14:15:56.480-06:00An excellent presentation of such hateful times an...An excellent presentation of such hateful times and behavior. Your response to your high school classmate also shows wisdom on your part at the time. I hope it helped to make her aware of many things she hadn't previously noticed or considered.Cheri Herringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931147472145926594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334949877564338451.post-88965594075550211052013-11-18T13:42:26.461-06:002013-11-18T13:42:26.461-06:00SMDH is all I can say LindeRe. Thanks for sharingSMDH is all I can say LindeRe. Thanks for sharingdavissmitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03580700758453248439noreply@blogger.com