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9 Dec 2013, 4:06 am
Until that happens, we are no better than the sheriff enforcing Jim Crow laws and racist restrictive covenants in deeds. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 2:05 pm
(David Kopel) A few weeks ago, the Mississippi Supreme Court took another step towards dismantling the state’s legacy of Jim Crow gun control laws. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 6:10 am
’” It was a lofty vision 50 years ago, when Jim Crow segregation prevailed and where discrimination by race was unabashedly open. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 4:54 am
Read Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 9:34 am
Denver’s Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 1:00 pm
Moreover, I found that black litigants won the majority of civil cases litigated against white southerners in higher state courts - not only during Reconstruction, but, astonishingly, during the post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras as well. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 9:24 am
It can’t be an observation about growing up as a slave, or under Jim Crow, or during the Civil Rights Era – because the eighteen-year-old students getting these preferences in 2012 were born in, let’s see, 1994, thirty years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 12:27 pm
If the Court had deferred to their judgment, we might still be in the thrall of Jim Crow. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 4:00 am
James Forman, Jr., Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow, 87 N.Y.U. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 6:22 am
Now comes an interesting rejoinder from James Forman, Jr.: “Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow,” 87 N.Y.U. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:02 am
Williams, Jr. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:02 am
Williams, Jr. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 6:00 am
He offers an extraordinary account of a generation of attorneys who fought against Jim Crow and for professional recognition when the odds were against them. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 9:23 am
We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Michelle Alexander, author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, and Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 4:51 pm
He suggests I agree with comments of Al Sharpton and others about how these laws are the new Jim Crow. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 12:27 pm
In The New Jim Crow, Professor Michelle Alexander traces how the astronomical increase in the American prison population, fueled in large part by draconian sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, has had a particularly large impact on African-Americans. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 12:46 pm
Fortunately the Court rejected this invitation to return to the bad old days of Jim Crow, and ruled that classifying prisoners by race is permissible only if the state can show that doing so is "narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest" – a showing no state has been able to make. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 10:48 am
When my parents moved to the Cherry Hill neighborhood in Baltimore after World War II, the legacy of Jim Crow was apparent. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 12:41 pm
Mass incarceration has systemically created an underclass of Black (and increasingly brown) citizens with fewer rights and more bitter futures than the rest of America; it really is the new Jim Crow. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 5:00 am
Today’s deans may not be striving to demolish Jim Crow laws, but they face an uphill battle nevertheless. [read post]
