Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors

Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding anti-black stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that undergird them. It features images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These pictures document the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as a pus-filled boil…Additional ISBNs: 9781629634371, 1629634379, 9781629634593, 162963459X