Board of Education, having grown up in the Jim Crow South, but given that Brown vs.
Do we have evidence that these individuals committed specific acts against African-Americans during Jim Crow?
Jim Crow was not built out of fears of the Federal Reserve and the I.
And on a personal note, a little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham.
Slavery and Jim Crow kept blacks and whites apart in the pews in the nation's early history.
But Walker remembers that Evers always questioned the Jim Crow segregation laws, even when they were kids.
The song "Jim Crow" featured in this series was performed by John Freeland Jr. and Sean Corey Campbell.
Jim Crow was alive and well and, for a good portion of the decade, schools were still legally segregated.
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Michelle Alexander has done just that in her book, The New Jim Crow.
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After the experience of World War II, by the end of 1945 the ground had been prepared for Jim Crow's grave.
He recalled how for half of his life, African-Americans like him weren't allowed to vote under the laws of Jim Crow segregation.
Remember, it was brave civil rights advocates and their acts of civil disobedience that put an end to heinous Jim Crow laws.
Some time around 1830, Rice learned a popular African-American song-and-dance routine, based on the myth of the trickster figure, an escaped slave named Jim Crow.
But living under Jim Crow instilled in Rice an astonishing resilience.
Derrick Simmons, his grandmother's tales of life as a black woman in the Delta region under Jim Crow are indelibly etched in his political consciousness.
Du Bois composed his text during Jim Crow, a time of official racial segregation that deliberately obscured to the wider world the human details of African-American life.
But the rise of Jim Crow laws in the late 1880s -- segregating blacks and whites -- spelled an end to the golden era of jockeys like Winkfield.
In America's armed forces, Jim Crow at last was dead.
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Like those who opposed Jim Crow, apartheid or the enfranchisement of women, when each was controversial, your support for gay marriage will surely end up on the right side of history.
Particularly given the task they set for themselves, the dismantling of Jim Crow segregation, they had little money for staff, little money for travel, little money for bail if they needed it.
In the Montgomery Voters' League, she helped would-be voters weave their way through the Jim Crow tests designed to keep them from the ballot, and tried several times to register to vote herself.
Years before the name became synonymous with racial segregation laws, Jim Crow was a showbiz act a performance first made famous in New York City by a young white actor named Thomas D.
Interfering with the right of thousands of honest Americans to go peacefully to work is not the same as demonstrating against the injustice of Jim Crow laws by riding in the front of the bus.
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Talking to her, it was easy to imagine that the place would not have looked so different when it was one of the few inns open to blues musicians (or anybody else who was black) during the Jim Crow era.
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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted mostly in U.S. Southern and border states between the 1870s and 1965 that denied African-Americans the right to vote and other civil liberties, as well as legally segregated them from whites.
Describing the Civil Rights Movement without mentioning Jim Crow is like writing about the atrocities committed by the German army in the Second World War and not mentioning Nazi race theory: it leaves out the primary ideological basis of the injustice being described.
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But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist between the African-American community and the larger American community today can be traced directly to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
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