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Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University, Big Rapids

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The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University is envisioned as an international leader in the anti-racism movement. The museum will serve as a base for quality scholarship addressing the complexities of race relations. The museum will encourage collaborative work with high schools, universities, government agencies, and human rights organizations, including, but not limited to, producing original research, planning and hosting conferences, and conducting anti-racism training sessions.

"I have a goal to create a room that when people come into that room, it changes the way they talk about race."

- Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University; Curator, Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia.

The Jim Crow Museum is pleased to announce limited weekend hours and extended weekday hours. Please check the calendar for availability.

http://ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/location.htm

http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/

http://jimcrowmuseum.blogspot.com/

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The Jim Crow Museum Facebook page is sponsored by the division of the Diversity and Inclusion Office. The administrators of this page are:

Franklin Hughes

231.591.3970

hughesf@ferris.edu

Sandy Gholston

231.591.2021

ghol1@ferris.edu

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We welcome interactions with our fans. You are welcome to post questions, comments or concerns on this page. Our goal is to build a community where our fans can share content, express their ideas, share experiences and provide helpful information to each other. Please note the rules of this site below and understand that we reserve the right to remove any post that does not comply.

Be respectful to others. It is fine to voice a complaint or to disagree with another post, but please do so in a constructive and polite manner. Profanities, personal attacks, defamation or use of obscenities about any person, group, organization or belief are not acceptable and will be removed.

Check your facts. If you post something that isn’t true, we will correct you and remove it.

Your posts should always be relevant to Ferris State University. Do not use this site to promote any other business, political candidate or other causes.

We welcome links to other pages and/or groups associated with Ferris State University. We remove posts with links to groups that do not have a direct association to Ferris. Specifically, we will remove posts such as:

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-You have a job opening – these are best directed to our Career Services site at ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/placement/ or our Alumni Facebook page at facebook.com/FerrisAlumni.

-If you are a vendor who would like to share information about a discount for our students, faculty, staff or alumni, please visit our purchasing site at ferris.edu/htmls/administration/purchase/

-You are a landlord. You can promote your rental opening by contacting the Torch student newspaper at fsutorch.com/

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  • You would not expect such a museum to be in the lower level of Ferris State University's Library (FLITE Library), but it is there and it is well worth a visit. The museum is a self-guided tour that.....  more
    You would not expect such a museum to be in the lower level of Ferris State University's Library (FLITE Library), but it is there and it is well worth a visit. The museum is a self-guided tour that.....  more »
  • It takes about 1 to 1.5 hours to tour the artifacts in this collection. The layout includes a chronological display of racism from the roots of slavery through today. The display also touches on our.....  more
    It takes about 1 to 1.5 hours to tour the artifacts in this collection. The layout includes a chronological display of racism from the roots of slavery through today. The display also touches on our.....  more »
  • This museum is intentionally disturbing (at least it should be). It should make one upset and reflective. 
    This museum is intentionally disturbing (at least it should be). It should make one upset and reflective.  more »
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  • My visit on Friday, May 20, 2022 was exceptional- thanks to Axel (staff member). He answered all my questions and was very courteous. Museum looks great- clean, organized, detailed, informative, interesting, captivating! In appreciation, I want to give thanks to the university for protecting this collection of historical content.
  • This Museum is so vital for all generations to experience! The artifacts catapult you to a time in history where you experience the racist actions, thoughts and ideas of an entire society . Truly remarkable and life changing. It is a must see for families! The conversation starts with you! You can't change what you refuse to confront!
  • This experience is something I would not forget. I probably not put them on Facebook because it so social conscious. Don't want in up in Facebook jail. Look Ferris state University " Jim Crow"
  • Very disturbing & informative on how racist still exists today especially with the President Obama case 😢 which his term wasn’t long ago at all. God has a special place for all those hateful souls! jim crow Era was indeed built off hate and for that reason a lot of black Americans are oppressed today. God does not like or support violence and hate. I am sorry that my black people had to endure this trauma and I thank those who fought for the rights we have today. Hatefulness will not make it to heaven and he.ll won’t care about you when you get there.
  • Very important museum. So many different things to read and look at. This museum gives a really good insight as to what the past used to be like. Really makes you think. Parking wasn't the best, but it is on Ferris's campus

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