Franklin Hughes is a multimedia specialist for the Diversity and Inclusion Office at Ferris State University. He is the primary content creator of audio and video for the Jim Crow Museum and also maintains the website and social media platforms. Hughes is a researcher and has written numerous articles for the Jim Crow Museum. Hughes has a passion for ancestry and history and strives to tell impactful stories whether using video production, writing, or graphic design.
Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow
SKU: 9781629637907
Authors: David Pilgrim & Franklin Hughes • Preface: David Eisler
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629637907
Published: 6/1/2020
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 224
Subjects: Social Science/Ethnic Studies/African American Studies/Education
Praise
“One of the most important contributions to the study of American history that I have ever experienced.”
—Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research
“This was a horrific time in our history, but it needs to be taught and seen and heard. This is very well done, very well done.”
—Malaak Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, on the Jim Crow Museum
“The museum’s contents are only a small part of the damaging effects
of the Jim Crow laws that were found all across America, including
bright and sunny California. This history is not only an important part
of understanding where America was but, in an age of states making it
harder and harder for citizens to vote, it is relevant to note that we
have been here before.”
—Henry Rollins, host of the History Channel’s 10 Things You Don’t Know About
“For decades the author has been on a Pilgrimage to bring out from
our dank closets the racial skeletons of our past. His is a crucial
mission, because he forces us to realize that race relations grew worse
in the first several decades of the twentieth century—something many
Americans never knew or now want to suppress. This book allows us to
see, even feel the racism of just a generation or two ago—and Pilgrim
shows that elements of it continue, even today. See it! Read it! Feel
it! Then help us all transcend it!”
—James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and coeditor of The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
“The museum has been one of my treasured go-to resources for teaching
people about the deep-seated roots of the racism that persists in our
collective subconscious. Only by facing our history and its hold on our
psyche can we construct a better culture. This work is invaluable.”
—damali ayo, author of How to Rent a Negro and Obamistan! Land without Racism
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Reviews
Interviews
Mentions
Blog
- Haste to Rise on Library Thing
- At the Jim Crow Museum, We Use Racist Objects to Engage Hearts and Heads in Social Justice
- Ferris staff release new book, ‘Haste to Rise’
- Pilgrim, Hughes Uncover Forgotten History of Campus Diversity, Identify Prominent African- American Attendees in Early 20th Century
- David Pilgrim in conversation with Franklin Hughes— Expect Diversity
Jim Crow Museum Video Projects
“Short’nin’ Bread” Racism in the Kitchen”, 2019, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
David Pilgrim NCORE 2018, 2018, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “16th Street Baptist Church Bombing”, 2018, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
Click on the links below for more videos!
- “Challenge racist narratives with a new book by David Pilgrim”, 2017 Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors, PM Press
- “Brothers” by David Pilgrim, 2016, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Pick and Pat” and Molasses ‘n’ January, (Racism in Radio), 2016, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The Jack Benny Show (Racism in Radio), 2016, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Gold Dust Radio Show” (Racism in Radio), 2016, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The Beulah Show” (Racism in Radio), 2016, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Amos ‘n’ Andy (Racism in Radio), 2016, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Understanding Jim Crow Book, 2015, Understanding Jim Crow, PM Press (Promotional Video)
- “Everyday Segregation”, 2015, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Blacks as Targets”, 2014, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Orangeburg Massacre 1968”, 2014, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The 1964 murders of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman”, 2013, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The New Jim Crow Museum”, 2013, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The 1965 murder of Viola Gregg Liuzzo”, 2013, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The 1965 murder of James Reeb”, 2013, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Aunt Jemima ‘I’se in town, Honey!’”, 2013, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The 1964 murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell”, 2013, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Sheet Music Montage”, 2013, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Blackening Up”, 2012, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Jump Jim Crow”, 2012, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Malaak Shabazz Visits the Jim Crow Museum”, 2012, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “The Jim Crow Museum: History, Purpose, Vision”, 2012, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Violence Video,” Played exclusively at Museum, 2011, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- “Racist Cartoon Montage,” Series of 10 videos Played exclusively at Museum, 2011, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
Jim Crow Museum Articles
- Hughes F., 2019, African Dip and Clown Dunk Tanks, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Rosen F., 2019, Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2019, Alpha Phi Alpha and Civil Rights, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2018, All-Negro Comics, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2018, Racist Clothing, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2018, Denny’s and Sambos, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2018, Old Zip Coon/Turkey in the Straw, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2017, William Mahone, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2017, Alligator Bait Revisited, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2017, William I. Gibson, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2017, Percy A. Fitzgerald, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2017,Russell A. Dixon, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2016, Belford V. Lawson, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2016, Percival L. Prattis, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., Pilgrim D., 2016, Gideon E. Smith, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2016, The Marlin Hurt and Beulah Show, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2016, Racism in Radio Advertising, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2016, Destination Freedom, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2015, Hambone’s Meditations, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2015, Black Mascots and Logos, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2015, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2014, Negro Battle Royal, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2013, Authentic Literacy Tests?, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2013, Alligator Bait, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University
- Hughes F., 2012, The African Dodger, Question of the Month, Jim Crow Museum,Ferris State University