New exhibit tells story of Rosenwald Schools in Jim Crow South
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has a special exhibit called “A Better Life for Their Children.” Through ...
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Former students recall Rosenwald School experience
Between 1912 and the unraveling of racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, Rosenwald Schools played a vital role in the education of African American children living in the Jim Crow rural South. On ...
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Jim Crow Laws
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and ...
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Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson
After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...
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ARSON FOLLOWS RACE WAR.; Massachusetts School for Blacks and Whites Destroyed by Fire.
early to-day, when the Plain district schoolhouse, better known as "the Jim Crow" school, which was opened recently by the School Committee for colored children of that town and also to relieve ...
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The origins of the civil rights movement
Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in the south, meaning it was legal to have separate facilities for Black and white Americans. Segregated spaces included: Schools Waiting rooms Public transport ...