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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]
21 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
” Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property from Clarence Thomas. [read post]
18 May 2011, 12:27 pm by David Ingram
Liu came to the Judiciary Committee and said that, basically, Judge Alito’s philosophy judicially takes us back to the Jim Crow Era, that to me showed an ideological superiority or disdain for conservative ideology that made him in my view an ideologue,” Graham told reporters off the Senate floor. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 2:26 pm by Atiba Ellis
(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]
24 Sep 2017, 2:45 am by NCC Staff
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]
30 Oct 2008, 6:58 pm
Like the courts that invalidated Jim Crow laws and segregation a half century ago, the California Supreme Court has determined that the State may not discriminate between heterosexual couples and same sex couples -- accordingly, the State Constitution requires that same sex couples be given the right to marry. [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 5:03 pm by Anthony Gaughan
You can also find a detailed account of the court martial proceedings in a 1984 American Heritage article (“The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson”) by Jules Tygiel, available here, and a 2008 Prologue article (“Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson”) by John Vernon, available here. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 2:45 am by NCC Staff
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]
26 Sep 2011, 9:49 am by Lovechilde
Future generations will look back on the institution of capital punishment as we do the institutions of slavery, lynching, and Jim Crow. [read post]
4 May 2010, 12:10 pm by GiovannaShay
Two recent books, Robert Perkinson's Texas Tough, and Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-blindness, make the connection between Reconstruction-era expansion of criminal prohibitions and our current, unprecedented criminal punishment system. [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 5:03 pm by Anthony Gaughan
You can also find a detailed account of the court martial proceedings in a 1984 American Heritage article (“The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson”) by Jules Tygiel, available here, and a 2008 Prologue article (“Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson”) by John Vernon, available here. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 7:37 am by Steve Hall
This march back to Jim Crow would surely be more difficult if there were more people of color on the federal bench. [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 7:56 am by Alicia Maule
Vitale  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander  The Wrongful Conviction Reader by Russell D. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 8:38 pm by Jon Katz
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]