After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...

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 ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an examination of where violence in Black homes originates and a plea to end ...

“I think the country has been reawakened the last two or three years to the fact ... during the brutal Jim Crow era, Carter shattered the lie often deployed to excuse the racism of older ...

Otherwise, we simply have Jim Crow laws of a new color. The states must also provide an appeals process for immediate resolution when documents are deemed unacceptable. Preventing citizens from ...

Such suggestions today would almost certainly prompt Carter’s fellow Democrats to accuse him of “voter suppression” or “Jim Crow 2.0.” Yet, in 2005, the Carter-Baker Commission report ...

Last year, a traveling exhibit from the the Ferris State University Jim Crow Museum was on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.