Short stories tagged with Jim Crow

Listing 5 stories.

In Jim Crow America, a newly animate Black doll struggles to find herself a loving human friend.

At the height of Jim Crow, a white American boy watches a baseball game that pits their town's Black and white residents against one another. When the white side begins to inflict harm on the Black team in order to win, the boy witnesses the violent reality of racism for the first time.

In a time during Jim Crow, a black man buries a white judge in a black only cemetery. When the white people find out, the man must escape before he is lynched.

A father witnesses fish floating in mid-air for nearly a minute on the lake near his home, and suspects strange goings on in the mountain just beyond it. When his son mysteriously vanishes from prison without a trace, the father endeavors into the mountain to get answers.

A man encounters a racist sergeant who agitates his African American friend.