Special to The Herald-Times

Author, editor and Indiana University professor emerita Audrey McCluskey grew up in America's Jim Crow South. While no longer teaching classes at IU, she is sharing through her latest book —her memoir —"GIRLCHILD: Growing Up between the pines and palms in Jim Crow Georgia and Florida." On Sept. 6, she will be signing copies of her book at Morgenstern Books & Cafe in Bloomington.

Jim Crow was a system of laws and practices especially in the South from 1877 to the 1960s. The name came from a routine by a white minstrel show entertainer Daddy Rice who "blacked" his face. Jim Crow became synonymous with segregation of African Americans, according to the National Association of Black Journalists .

Just a few Jim Crow restrictions

Here are just a few of Jim Crow

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