Jim Crow in Jerusalem

Segregation in Palestine and Jim Crow America

Robert Frank’s “Trolley — New Orleans,” from “The Americans,” Courtesy Pace/MacGill (1959)

“New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of the twenty-first century. This observation links America’s segregated past to its nominally desegregated present: anyone who travels from the New Haven train station to Yale University…