In 1930s Alabama, Communist Party members fought brutal repression to organize black and white workers in the Jim Crow South. Their efforts remain a source of inspiration for those fighting racism ...
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has a special exhibit called “A Better Life for Their Children.” Through ...
In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...
Coates draws on his own identity as a Black American and likens Israel’s control over West Bank Palestinians to the Jim Crow South. He also questions the justification for Israel’s founding ...
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 ...
like in the U.S. The Nazis borrowed a lot from the Jim Crow South and applied it to their populations of non-Aryans in Germany, so that included people who weren’t Black. [There were rules like ...
The former Wall Street Journal reporter, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2022 for writing about the Tulsa massacre, also connects spanking to the Jim Crow-era crime of lynching, both of which often ...
I'm grateful that we have our lives." In the 1950s, the Benn family fled the Jim Crow South, settling in California to lay down their roots and build generational wealth. Situated just north of ...
Winfred Rembert became physically ill whenever he painted harrowing scenes from his time growing up during the Jim Crow era in South Georgia. Created on tooled leather, some of his paintings ...