News

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 ...
President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea Hines ...
When whites re-gained control of Southern states’ governments, they began to enact laws ... made them ineligible to serve on jury pools or run for office. “Separate but equal” and Jim Crow ...
Legislatures in Northern and Southern states immediately created a series of racially discriminatory policies that became known as Jim Crow laws. For 100 years — from the end of race-based ...
Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump ...