Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...
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Jim Crow Laws
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...
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Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson
After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...
Donald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People
The Trump administration has dismissed public pleas for mercy for transgender youth and instead launched a full-scale attack ...
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On War Room: Pandemic, Steve Cortes compares mail-in voting to Jim Crow-era poll taxes and literacy tests
True the Vote's Gregg Phillips to government officials he says wronged him: “I’m going to track you down and I’m going to beat the living snot out of you.” ...
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The origins of the civil rights movement
Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing ... In 1865, the Civil War in America ended. The northern states had defeated the southern states. The years immediately after the war were ...