Jim Crow
House 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.
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After 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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Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947
April 15, 2019"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...
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Jim Crow racism is back with Florida Republicans’ poll tax
March 28, 2019If Republicans have their way, they will use unpaid fines to block a substantial portion of African Americans from voting.
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Voter suppression: Not just in the South, not just ID laws
October 23, 2018Voter suppression is as old as Jim Crow and exists everywhere from Washington to New York to Florida to Kentucky.
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