For Coloreds Only
Two high school students create a powerful movie trailer about the Jim Crow Laws that go beyond the law and frame the lives of those who lived through those times. This is a film created more than two years ago yet one that the CVCV
Clearing the dust off the metaphorical shelves of my mind
Isn't that exactly what the checks and balances system is all about? Isn't that how the Jim Crow laws were struck down? Some legislator somewhere second guessed a process and the laws changed. God, I hate politicians
Jim Crow: The Tyranny of the White Minority
that the law has until now overlooked: Loss of the right to control the governments of several Southern states. This injury means that current African Americans disadvantage likely rests on a constitutional violation; Jim Crow could
Should the Democratic Party apologize for slavery?
This particular comment along with the proposal that the state of Georgia go on record as apologizing for slavery, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws has opened up a debate amongst Democrats and Republicans as to whether the government should
Incommensurability: Was Jim Crow Really That Bad?
I discussed at some length segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans, as well as discrimination against Asian Americans; anti-miscegenation laws applicable to Asians, for example; laws designed to prevent Asians from
Official Apologies to Blacks, American Indians Proposed
"And for 100 years thereafter, a system of laws in many states throughout the country had Jim Crow laws that deprived people of the opportunity for equal access to education, health care, public facilities and other types of programs.
Look Away, Dixie Land
The (genuine and pressing) need to suppress Jim Crow laws became an opportunity for the federal government to justify massive increases in power vis-à-vis the states; it was time to pull out the Civil War tropes and once again portray a
THE KING LEGACY: Criticisms can't tarnish his crow
The name for these laws was called Jim Crow. Jim Crow was a fictional black buffoon character often portrayed by whites doing vaudeville shows while in blackface. Jim Crow laws were more numerous in the South, and they regulated nearly
Is the War on Drugs the New Jim Crow?
Is the War on Drugs just modern day Jim Crow laws? This article will tackle the issues of the War on Drugs and show the similarities of the laws created with those of the south's Jim Crow laws
Tiki and the Articulation of Jim Crow Laws
At the risk of breaking the only Jim Crow law still on the books, I am going to state for the record, that Tiki is articulate in comparison to all people because in general very few people are articulate. In fact I am going to state

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow | PBS
THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement.
Jim Crow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jim Crow laws, state and local laws in the Southern and border states of the "Jump Jim Crow", the blackface song for which the laws were named,
The History of Jim Crow
The so-called Jim Crow segregation laws gained significant impetus from U. S. Supreme Court rulings in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.
What Was Jim Crow?
Ferguson (1896) case, which legitimized Jim Crow laws and the Jim Crow way of life. In 1891, a group of Blacks decided to test the Jim Crow law.
Remembering Jim Crow : Presented by American RadioWorks
These statutes, which together were known as Jim Crow, were in place and enforced until the 1950s and 60s. Here is a sampling of those laws, grouped by
Jim Crow America
"Jim Crow" laws barred African Americans from access to employment and to public places such as restaurants, hotels, and other facilities.
Jim Crow laws — Infoplease.com
Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, Related content from HighBeam Research on: Jim Crow laws
Click2History - Jim Crow Laws - Chapter 1 - Preface
6. THE SOUTH REJOINS THE UNION. 7. BAD DECISIONS MAKE BAD LAW. 8. WHAT WERE JIM CROW LAWS. 9. NOW WHAT? 10. THE INFAMOUS LAWS. 11. A SHAMEFUL LEGACY
AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
Jim Crow laws were named for an ante-bellum mistral show character. The Jim Crow laws were a response to a new reality that required white supremacy to
Jim Crow laws — FactMonster.com
Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks jim+crow+laws: jim+crow+laws