Jim Crow
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...
Read moreJim 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.
Read moreVoter 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.
Read moreJim 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.
Read moreJackie Robinson, Opening Day and U.S. – Cuba relations
April 5, 2016"My mother and I were thrilled and honored to witness our President extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people."
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