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11 Feb 2015, 1:03 pm
” –Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow “A visitor from Mars might wonder why—in assigning opportunity to individuals and status to higher education institutions—we rely so heavily on a highly imperfect operationalization of merit—the standardized test—or at least why there is so little debate about this practice. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 2:17 pm
In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. [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]
7 Jan 2015, 11:01 am
Carde of the Trammell Crow Company. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm
Convinced that the law had done all it could for blacks, Powell took issue with King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, impugning its invocation of civil disobedience and rejecting its calls for compensatory justice to make up for slavery and Jim Crow. [read post]
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]
New Release: Day, "The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation"
22 Jul 2014, 9:30 pm
Orchestrated by United States Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia, the southern congressional delegation in general, and the United States Senate's Southern Caucus in particular, fought vigorously and successfully to counter the initial successes of civil rights workers and maintain Jim Crow. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 6:28 am
Ferguson: the Effects of Lawyering on a Challenge to Jim Crow” and it is by Seton Hall history professor Williamjames Hull Hoffer. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 6:28 am
Ferguson: the Effects of Lawyering on a Challenge to Jim Crow” and it is by Seton Hall history professor Williamjames Hull Hoffer. [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]
4 Jun 2014, 9:00 am
The ghosts of slavery and Jim Crow still haunted most places that we saw. [read post]
20 May 2014, 1:54 am
Southern police arrested riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses, but they frequently first let white mobs attack the passengers. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 12:20 pm
What united liberal Republicans and Democrats was a commitment to ending Jim Crow. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 1:55 pm
Alito Jr. was originally recused. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 3:56 am
“All that sounds very good,” said Michelle Alexander, the legal scholar who wrote “The New Jim Crow,” a scorching 2010 indictment of the racialized war on drugs. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 7:00 am
In the past, the LHB has reported on Jim-Crow-era cold cases and efforts in Alabama to rectify injustices from the era of segregation. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 9:30 pm
Hollowell grew up in Kansas somewhat insulated from the harsh conditions imposed by Jim Crow laws throughout the South. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 9:25 am
Judge Perry was born in Columbia in 1921, a time when Jim Crow attitudes prevailed. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 11:00 pm
Metress juxtaposes a reading of Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
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]
