The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...

So that’s where the “solution” came in. A set of segregationist laws, known as Jim Crow after a minstrel show character, were white Southerners’ best attempt to restore their former way of ...

Legislatures in Northern and Southern states immediately created a series of racially discriminatory policies that became known as Jim Crow laws. For 100 years — from the end of race-based ...

This was particularly the case in the southern states of the USA. Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and discrimination in southern states. The Ku Klux Klan targeted ...

Waties Waring, a southern white judge, showed when he issued unpopular rulings against segregation and Jim Crow laws despite the criticism and threats he knew he would receive from local political ...

As the 2025 legislative session draws near, hundreds of Louisiana prisoners remain in political limbo. But a new bill could provide them with relief.

The museum contextualizes the dreadful impact of Jim Crow laws and customs and uses objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote a more just society. The museum is located at Ferris State ...

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said his previous theory that the Trump administration would enact “Jim Crow 2.0” is coming true. Clyburn joined CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Wednesday, and he was ...