Jim Crow – Page 3 – People's World

Leave no Black vote unsuppressed: Republicans plan post-Georgia moves

April 5, 2021 By Max Elbaum

In response, a broad coalition launches the 'For The People Act' Week of Action, April 5-9.

‘Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: 1946 racist police violence case gets fresh attention

March 10, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

PBS program spotlights long-lost case of racist police violence.

Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism

February 26, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky

As an architect of the early struggle for African-American equality and Black liberation in Africa, Hunton was committed to exposing the links between Jim Crow and imperialism.

Remembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration

December 21, 2020 By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II And Elliott Smith

Boynton’s arrest and Supreme Court case 62 years ago helped inspire youth-led movements for social change.

House votes to toss statues of rebels from U.S. Capitol

July 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The Democratic-run U.S. House voted to eject statues of Confederate leaders, plus racist U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, from the U.S. Capitol, especially Statuary Hall.