Jim Crow in Jerusalem
<p>New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/purchasing-power" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">wrote</a> a scholar of the city at the turn of the twenty-first century. This observation links America’s segregated past to its nominally desegregated present: anyone who travels from the New Haven train station to Yale University confronts the fractious legacy of racial segregation. While segregation in the United States predates 1896, the racial divide approved by the “separate but equal” ruling of the US Supreme Court (<em>Plessy v. Ferguson,</em> 1896) strengthened Jim Crow laws across the American South, and indirectly reinforced de facto segregation in the northern states. The racial divide was famously emblematized in a groundbreaking documentary photograph series, Robert Frank’s <em>The Americans </em>(1959). The original photographs are currently held in New Haven, in the hallowed walls of Yale University.</p>
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