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Sears let Black Americans buy what they needed during the Jim Crow era, when stores were allowed to openly discriminate

Mississippi voted to end a law that effectively blocks Black candidates from statewide office. The Jim Crow-era law was written to uphold white supremacy. Mississippi has the biggest Black population by % in the U.S., but no Black candidates have won statewide office since.

Nearly 70 years ago, a group of young black men were victims of one of the ugliest episodes of the Jim Crow era in the South. Although none of them are alive today, the Groveland Four were pardoned Friday.

Before it became a racist stereotype in the Jim Crow era, watermelon once symbolized black self-sufficiency. #NationalWatermelonDay 

BREAKING: John Lewis, an icon of the civil rights movement, has died at 80. He began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to become a force in Democratic politics.

The gap between white and black homeownership is wider now than it was during the end of the Jim Crow era. Here’s one of the reasons why:

Most confederate monuments were erected during Jim Crow era. They weren't put up for history, they were meant to terrorize black people.

Learn about Aunt Jemima's origins, along with the origins of other mascots that leverage Jim Crow-era stereotypes—plus the 1857 Supreme Court decision that led to more caricatures of African Americans in popular culture.

Many felony disenfranchisement laws were passed during the Jim Crow era with the intent to bar minorities from voting. As of 2016, 1 in every 56 non-black voters lost their right to vote. Conversely, 1 in every 13 Black voters was disenfranchised.