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12 Dec 2017, 10:08 am
Supreme Court, the various U.S. courts of appeals and the U.S. district courts.Ford’s book is more than a general biography of the woman who would become the first African-American female United States district judge; it presents in vivid detail how her work altered the legal landscape of the United States systematically, case after case, dismantling the Jim Crow laws in the Southern United States. [read post]
24 Sep 2017, 2:45 am
The elder Harlan was known as the Great Dissenter for his opposition to rulings that promoted Jim Crow laws in the South. 9. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 7:21 am
Watson, Jr. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 2:26 pm
(And, as evidence is showing, the statues at issue now went up precisely to signal the ascendancy of white supremacy, both in the 1920s at the height of Jim Crow and 1950s in mass resistance to the racial integration demanded by Brown v. [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 6:43 am
Commissioner Calvert and others insist that the soldier in Travis Park represents racism and Jim Crow laws. [read post]
17 Jul 2017, 3:30 am
James Forman Jr. [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 2:56 am
The move gutted the Privilege and Immunities Clause of its effect and kept the door open for Jim Crow laws in the South. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 6:47 pm
” The Washington Post reviews He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty, by S. [read post]
15 May 2017, 11:56 am
The Fourth Circuit had labeled the state law as “the most restrictive” such law “since the era or Jim Crow. [read post]
23 Apr 2017, 12:00 am
Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, which probes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the Nuremberg Laws. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 8:45 am
Martin Luther King Jr., who told us that, “The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 7:58 pm
The malevolence of President Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly—and perhaps only—by the astonishing incompetence of its drafting and construction. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 9:14 am
However, Lee-Jackson day needs to end, not because Lee and Jackson fought for the losing military, nor out of any judgment about states’ rights and secession rights, but because this holiday is inextricably intertwined with Virginia’s official virulently racist and Jim Crow past. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 12:01 am
(Old Crow is a brand owned by Jim Beam.) [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 8:38 pm
Curiously, Virginia’s Court of Appeals in Turner relies on a 1947 state Supreme Court case — when Jim Crow was in full throttle in Virginia and the rest of the South — to say that in Turner’s case his noose display was as much in a public place as was Montana Hackney’s allegedly disorderly conduct when Hackney spouted ugly words from his own porch. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 9:30 am
Purcell Jr. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 12:01 am
Most Americans think of Rosa Parks as just a poor seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama who one day made a valiant stand and decided not to move to the back of the bus (as was required for African-Americans), single-handedly taking on and helping to change the racist policies of the Jim Crow Era. [read post]
31 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
” In 2009, he published “Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 9:05 pm
“Regulatory Crimes and the Mistake of Law Defense” [Paul Larkin, Heritage] Victims of sex offender registry laws, cont’d [Lenore Skenazy] James Forman, Jr.: case against mass incarceration can stand on its own without flawed Jim Crow analogy [Boston Review and N.Y.U. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 1:03 am
Abernathy recalled: Because of Jim Crow we could only have dinner at home. [read post]
