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 beginning in ...
The hosts of "The View" criticized Florida Republican Representative Byron Donalds for appearing to suggest that life was better for Black people under Jim Crow segregation laws. Jim Crow laws were ...
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 — there ...
Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...
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 — there ...
When Oklahoma became a state in 1907, its constitution included a provision exempting from voting literacy requirements anybody whose grandfather had been eligible to vote prior to 1866 or who had ...
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — who eagerly describes herself as a prosecutor running against “felon” Donald Trump — likened law enforcement in America to lynching and Jim Crow ...
To the editor: If the U.S. Constitution gives the right to vote to every citizen over 18 years of age, then states need to guarantee that every citizen can exercise that right. That means they must ...
White Plains federal judge Nelson Román repeatedly invoked the specter of Jim Crow in a hearing Thursday morning as he weighed the validity of various executive orders seeking to block the transfer of ...
In the early months of 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that might not initially appear to share anything in ...
As President Donald Trump’s administration continues to form and top officials are confirmed, questions remain about the future of a highly publicized and pending Biden administration lawsuit against ...