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2 Oct 2014, 2:02 am
(Houston became the Litigation Director of NAACP and played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws, which earned him the title “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow”.) [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]
1 Jul 2010, 4:49 am
But as long as these economic relationships continue, the ghosts of Jim Crow walk among us. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 6:54 am
A team of unknown Mexican American lawyers took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. [read post]
7 May 2021, 5:00 pm
Instead, another compromise, as reconstruction yielded to black codes and Jim Crow. [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]
18 Feb 2009, 9:00 pm
Virginians can warn me all they want that I will come across as a carpetbagger to complain about this state of affairs, but the discomfort continues as I recall the slavery, severe racism and Jim Crow that drenched the state's soil right into the 1960's. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 10:58 am
What’s more, to imply that what the maids Aibileen and Minny are working against is simply a refusal on everyone’s part to believe that ”we’re all the same underneath” is to simplify the horrors of Jim Crow to a truly damaging degree. [read post]
8 May 2018, 1:30 pm
Decades of slavery, Jim Crow laws, discriminatory lending practices, and intentional policy choices at the federal, state, and local level — most of which were enacted within the last 80 years — helped make it so. [read post]
21 Jun 2014, 11:30 am
We the People, Vol. 3: The Civil Rights RevolutionBruce Ackerman (2014, Belknap Press) Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale University, focuses on the events and laws that shaped the civil rights era and helped to end Jim Crow, starting with the 1954 Brown v. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 11:00 pm
Metress juxtaposes a reading of Martin Luther King Jr. [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]
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]
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]
26 Apr 2010, 5:26 am
This generation of Americans, when confronted with the past sins of racism, often remark that slavery and Jim Crow was so long ago. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 8:35 pm
The volume underscores how Perry enabled his home state to escape from Jim Crow's clutches with much less turmoil than many of its neighbors. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 5:26 am
This generation of Americans, when confronted with the past sins of racism, often remark that slavery and Jim Crow was so long ago. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 1:01 pm
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led thousands of nonviolent crusaders to the completion of a 54-mile pilgrimage from Selma to Montgomery. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 8:29 am
Certainly, true progress has been achieved since the days of institutionalized slavery, Jim Crow and Emmet Till. [read post]
17 Jan 2022, 3:47 am
The old Jim Crow would kill you. [read post]
