Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...
Those billy clubs striking my body strengthened my mind and convinced me that we could overcome segregation. We did so then, and we can overcome Trump’s America today. A protest against Jim Crow ...
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at ...
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 ...
Back in the mid-20th century, when mandated segregation was still the law of the land in the Jim Crow South, a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases and federal legislation began to dismantle this racist ...
NMAFMAI copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "Jim Crow's Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the lives of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future ...
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