Jim Crow
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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Jim Crow tactics return with Trump’s “election integrity” commission
August 11, 2017The same sham justifications used to prop up voter suppression tactics during the Jim Crow era are being recycled today.
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