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Letters to the Editor: 'Jim Crow laws of a new color' — on states making it harder to vote
It is the state’s responsibility to guarantee that this process works every time. Otherwise, we simply have Jim Crow laws of a new color. The states must also provide an appeals process for ...
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 and Plessy v. Ferguson
When whites re-gained control of Southern states’ governments ... 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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Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That's a red flag
Jim Crow was not the problem ... the Hayes administration did nothing as Southern states passed laws aimed at suppressing their voices. There were literacy tests that white southerners were ...
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Will Biden and Stacey Abrams Eat Their Words That Georgia’s 2021 Election Law Is Jim Crow 2.0?
A centerpiece of Biden’s argument was a law Georgia passed in 2021 reforming the state’s chaotic procedures ... Biden called the 2021 law Jim Crow 2.0 and said, The goal of the former ...
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The origins of the civil rights movement
This was particularly the case in the southern states of the USA. Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and discrimination in southern states. The Ku Klux Klan targeted ...