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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ... Some states then passed a law that meant people had to pass a literacy test to be allowed to ...