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Sixty Years After the Unwinding of Jim Crow, a Historic US Election By Donna Bryson ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) - It’s almost at the edge of living memory: President Lyndon Johnson signing the ...
“The Jim Crow years were my formative years,” Wilkinson said. “Just watching and seeing and being part of, gave me the tools to fight.” A drone view of Clarksdale, Mississippi is seen ...
The Houghton Library at Harvard University is now the owner of the rare copy of the original Green Book, the Jim Crow era travel guide that listed safe places for Black travelers to visit, The ...
Like the Jim Crow-era decisions, the immunity ruling ignores both the plain text of the Constitution and the historical ...
The new exhibit, called “Overcoming Hateful Things: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Imagery,” will open Saturday, June 3.
Under Jim Crow, it was commonplace for elected officials — from lowly sheriffs to members of the United States Senate — to use their platforms in exactly the manner we see from Donald Trump ...
Leslie Morris, Gore Vidal curator of modern books and manuscripts, examined an original copy of the 1949 "The Negro Motorist Green Book," a travel guide for Black motorists during Jim Crow. David ...
Mr. T. Rice as the Original Jim Crow National Portrait Gallery. Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. Click to view download files. Click to view IIIF info ...