Kevin McCarthy voted to throw out millions of Black votes on January 6th. He had pushed House Republicans back 50 years into the Jim Crow Era. What American company can ever afford to contribute again to McCarthy’s New Jim Crow Party?
Is there a book about guys like Charles Jonas and William Cramer — Republican members of congress from the South in the Jim Crow era?
A Jim Crow-era rule in Louisiana allowed jurors to send people to prison even without a unanimous decision. As a result of this rule, Roderick Vidau, accused of stealing $15, was sentenced to 35 years.
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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.
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.
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