Jim Crow Museum Receives National Attention

The University’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia has become an important national resource for people documenting images of racism in America. Over the past several months, the museum and its curator, Sociology Professor David Pilgrim, have been the focus of documentaries, news stories and lecture series.

Last spring, excerpts from the museum’s Web site were read on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the leading Black-hosted radio talk show in the United States. The museum was the subject of the article “Keeping Jim Crow Alive,” which appeared in the June 6 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education and also was featured on Tolerance.org, a Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Pilgrim delivered the J.N. Ervin Lecture series at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas, and in February was profiled in the Houston Chronicle.

Tamar Charney, a producer at WUOM Public Radio, received top honors from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters in the “Best Feature Story” category for a story about the museum. Charney’s interview with Pilgrim can be heard on the museum’s web site, www.ferris.edu/edu/jimcrow/.

 

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