Jim Crow
‘Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: 1946 racist police violence case gets fresh attention
March 10, 2021PBS program spotlights long-lost case of racist police violence.
Read moreAlphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism
February 26, 2021As 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.
Read moreRemembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration
December 21, 2020Boynton’s arrest and Supreme Court case 62 years ago helped inspire youth-led movements for social change.
Read moreHouse votes to toss statues of rebels from U.S. Capitol
July 24, 2020The 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.
Read moreAfter a century or more of defeats, Congress finally declares lynching a hate crime
March 3, 2020At least 4,742 people, 99% of them African Americans, were lynched between 1892 and the mid-1950s.
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