Alabama’s death penalty laws are indefensible, not only because they are unconstitutional but because they are based on an 1870 Jim Crow law allowing non-unanimous death verdicts.

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

The state is associated with the worst of the Jim Crow Era, but also the people ... Last week, the Alabama Legislature passed SB129, a law that will keep diversity, equity and inclusion offices ...

Due to white southern planters stuffing ballot boxes, provisions were added to the Alabama constitution that ... ignored fight against the rise of Jim Crow and unwillingness to submit to the ...

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 ...

I consider the voter registration amendment on the ballot in November to be a Jim Crow law whose purpose is not fair elections but voter suppression. Voter fraud is typically associated with ...

James Peck is mobbed at the Birmingham Bus station, Alabama Credit: Bettmann Then in Aniston, Alabama, after one of the two buses was firebombed by a white mob, the driver of Person’s bus ...

These segregation laws became known as the Jim Crow laws. close Jim Crow lawsThe laws that introduced segregation in the US South (the laws that kept black people and white people apart).