Jim Crow Etiquette

In the segregated South of the early 20th century, unwritten rules of racial etiquette dictated every aspect of appropriate social behavior for blacks and whites. USU historian Jennifer Ritterhouse is analyzing the parental and peer instruction that enabled children to navigate the rigid rules, which were sustained by coercion and the threat of violence.

For more information, contact Jennifer Ritterhouse, author of Growing Up Jim Crow:  How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race, University of North Carolina Press (May 2006), and assistant professor, History Department, College of HASS, Utah State University, 435-797-0917.